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Enrollment
390
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993006451
LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus
8914 S Buffalo Ave, Chicago, IL 60617 · (773) 722-8577 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL390 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% 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.
- A-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
14.4:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
344 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
1
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 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 35 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 38 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 37 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 54% larger than its 8th grade class (37).
Student demographics
16%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
38.8%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.1pp since 2023
Math
29.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.8% | 29.5% |
| 2023-24 | 31.7% | 16.5% |
% 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
30.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 - South Chicago Campus
LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus's state test result (30.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus this school | 390 | 88.2% | 30.6% |
| Lavizzo Elementary School Chicago | 394 | 89.8% | 14.9% |
| Hughes L Elementary School Chicago | 431 | 87.0% | 13.0% |
| Ryder Elementary Math & Sci Spec School Chicago | 351 | 92.3% | 18.6% |
| Locke A Elementary Charter Academy Chicago | 346 | 87.0% | 38.5% |
| Parker Elementary Community Academy Chicago | 367 | 93.2% | 13.9% |
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 - South Chicago Campus ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.6% | #1,252 of 1,925 | #389 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.5% | #1,301 of 2,077 ▲ 40 | #400 of 829 ▲ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.8% | #1,389 of 2,077 ▼ 278 | #484 of 829 ▼ 122 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 390 | #1,047 of 2,419 | #445 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #1,377 of 2,035 | #615 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.2% | #1,728 of 2,042 | #657 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.2% | #328 of 2,132 | #235 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.0% | #659 of 1,461 | #356 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
390
-55 (-12%) 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 | 390 | 27 | 14.4:1 | 88% (344) |
| 2023-24 | 406 | 25 | 16.2:1 | 93% (378) |
| 2022-23 | 419 | 4 | 104.8:1 | 89% (372) |
| 2020-21 | 445 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 459 | 19.5 | 23.5:1 | 96% (440) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (459 to 390); teachers up 38% (19.5 to 27).
About LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus
LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus is a public mid-sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. The school teaches kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 390 students.
LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus falls under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which has 622 schools enrolling 324,396 students.
Black students account for 91% of the school's enrollment. After that, the student body is 7% Hispanic. Among all residents of Cook County, the Black share is about 22%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 16%.
LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Illinois is similar, at 13.9:1. At LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus, 88% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That rate is above the 66% average among public schools in Cook County.
LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 50% of Illinois public elementary schools.
LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (30.6%) and its predicted rate (20.6%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Cook County show that the median household earns about $83,498 a year, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Cook County has 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students, including LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus.
Thorp J N Elementary School sits less than a tenth of a mile from LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus. LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus comes in 2nd of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large). NCES lists LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus as a charter school.
The school's student count fell 12% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
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- 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
- Thorp J N Elementary School0.0 mi · 296
- Mireles Elementary Academy0.4 mi · 546
- Noble St Chtr-Baker Campus0.7 mi · 285
- Bowen High School0.7 mi · 278
- Sullivan Elementary School0.8 mi · 439
- EPIC Academy High School0.8 mi · 255
Frequently asked questions
About LEARN Chtr - South Chicago CampusWhat is the total enrollment at LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus?
LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus enrolls approximately 390 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus serve?
LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus is approximately 14.4:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus?
Student demographics at LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus are roughly 1% White, 7% Hispanic, 91% Black, 0% Two or more.
Is LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus public or private?
LEARN Chtr - South Chicago Campus 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.