LEARN Chtr - Middle School

Located at 3021 W Carroll Ave, in Chicago, Illinois, LEARN Chtr - Middle School is a micro-enrollment intermediate school that hosts 176 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so LEARN Chtr - Middle School sits 62% below that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, LEARN Chtr - Middle School records that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, LEARN Chtr - Middle School has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 93% of students at LEARN Chtr - Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LEARN Chtr - Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 18.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.9%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cook County) records that median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which LEARN Chtr - Middle School is one.

LEARN Charter Excel Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEARN Chtr - Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEARN Chtr - Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 21.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. LEARN Chtr - Middle School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 42%: 306 students in 2018 compared to 176 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 76.5:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.