LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus

LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, works with 390 students in grades K through 8.

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

Looking at the student body, LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus reports that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.6%, the actual is 30.6%, a residual of +10.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $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. LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Thorp J N Elem School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 16.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 459 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 11% to 7%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.