LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp

LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp operates as an average-sized elementary campus in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 472 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp sits 24% above that benchmark.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp logs that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 81% of students at LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. 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 - Hunter Perkins Camp performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.9%, the actual is 32.0%, a residual of +7.1 points.

Across the wider county, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp is one campus in the mix.

Foster Park Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 15.8%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 502 (now 472). Class-load math has pulled in: from 27.9:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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