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Enrollment
472
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993006492
LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp
1700 W 83rd St, Chicago, IL 60620 · (773) 488-1634 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL472 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 47% of Illinois public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.5:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
381 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 43 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 43 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 40 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 48% larger than its 8th grade class (40).
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
49.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +13.1pp since 2023
Math
21.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.3% | 21.5% |
| 2023-24 | 36.2% | 10.4% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp
LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp's state test result (32.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp this school | 472 | 80.7% | 32.0% |
| Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock Elementary School Chicago | 512 | 81.4% | 32.8% |
| Univ of Chicago Chtr-Donoghue Chicago | 499 | 84.6% | 29.6% |
| Carnegie Elementary School Chicago | 389 | 79.7% | 30.1% |
| John J Pershing Magnet Elementary Chicago | 439 | 83.1% | 18.6% |
| Illinois School Park Forest | 391 | 79.3% | 37.1% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #1,201 of 1,925 | #365 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.5% | #1,549 of 2,077 ▲ 45 | #510 of 829 ▲ 38 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #1,019 of 2,077 ▼ 98 | #332 of 829 ▼ 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 472 | #651 of 2,419 | #305 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.5:1 | #1,992 of 2,035 | #801 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.2% | #1,928 of 2,042 | #746 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.7% | #487 of 2,132 | #335 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.0% | #1,141 of 1,461 | #545 of 661 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
472
-13 (-3%) vs 2020
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 472 | 23 | 20.5:1 | 81% (381) |
| 2023-24 | 467 | 22 | 21.2:1 | 77% (361) |
| 2022-23 | 471 | 7 | 67.3:1 | 73% (344) |
| 2020-21 | 485 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 502 | 18 | 27.9:1 | 88% (440) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (502 to 472); teachers up 28% (18 to 23).
About LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp
LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp is a mid-sized elementary school for students in Chicago, Illinois. It reported 472 students in kindergarten through 8 in 2024-25. By comparison, elementary schools in Illinois enroll about 381 students on average.
The 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enroll 324,396 students altogether, LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp among them.
LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp is 96% Black by enrollment. The next largest groups are 3% Hispanic. In Cook County overall, about 22% of residents are Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 8%.
Based on 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp has a ratio of 20.5:1. The average for elementary schools in Illinois, 13.9:1, is lower. Income data for the school show 81% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Cook County is 66%.
On the allk12 Grade, LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp lands at B-, ahead of 47% of Illinois public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp is 7.1 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 32.0% actual, 24.9% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Illinois.
Cook County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp shares Cook County with 1,405 other public schools.
Foster Park Elementary School is about 0.3 miles from LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 15.8%, lower than LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp's 32.0%.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Large. Charter status: LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp is a public charter school.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 485 to 472, a 3% decline.
LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
- Curie Metropolitan High SchoolHigh · 3,099 students
- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Other schools in Chicago
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
- Curie Metropolitan High SchoolHigh · 3,099 students
- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Nearby schools
- Foster Park Elementary School0.3 mi · 345
- Cook Elementary School0.4 mi · 322
- CICS - Ralph Ellison Campus0.4 mi · 247
- Joplin Elementary School0.5 mi · 283
- Cuffe Math-Sci Tech Elementary Academy0.6 mi · 249
- Barton Elementary School0.8 mi · 411
Frequently asked questions
About LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins CampHow large is LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp?
LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp enrolls approximately 472 students in grades KG-08.
Is LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp an elementary, middle, or high school?
LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp?
Approximately 20.5:1 students per teacher at LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp.
How diverse is LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp?
LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp reports a student body of 1% White, 3% Hispanic, 96% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp public or private?
LEARN Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.