LEARN Chtr - Butler

As a reasonably sized primary school in Chicago, Illinois, LEARN Chtr - Butler works with 475 students from grades K through 8, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Enrollment runs roughly 25% above the state mean of about 381.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; LEARN Chtr - Butler is among them.

On demographics, LEARN Chtr - Butler records that nearly all students (98%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 2% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting LEARN Chtr - Butler higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 97% of students at LEARN Chtr - Butler qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LEARN Chtr - Butler sits in the top 10% of Illinois schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 15.3%; actual is 30.2%, +14.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cook County) reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), LEARN Chtr - Butler is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Noble St Chtr-DRW Trading Col, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEARN Chtr - Butler. On composite proficiency, LEARN Chtr - Butler comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 10.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. As a public charter, LEARN Chtr - Butler runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 18%: 582 students in 2018 compared to 475 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 in 2025.

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