LEARN Charter Excel Campus

LEARN Charter Excel Campus operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 379 students spanning grades K through 6.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, LEARN Charter Excel Campus is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, LEARN Charter Excel Campus shows that nearly all students (98%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 93% of students at LEARN Charter Excel Campus qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LEARN Charter Excel Campus ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 17.6%; LEARN Charter Excel Campus posts 40.7%, +23.1 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), LEARN Charter Excel Campus is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LEARN Chtr - 7th Campus, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LEARN Charter Excel Campus at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 19.8%.

LEARN Charter Excel Campus operates from a downtown location. As a public charter, LEARN Charter Excel Campus runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEARN Charter Excel Campus has ticked down 16%, going from 450 students in 2018 to 379 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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