Legacy Elem Charter School

Legacy Elem Charter School is one of the medium-sized elementary schools in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 458 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Legacy Elem Charter School sits 20% bigger than that benchmark.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Legacy Elem Charter School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Legacy Elem Charter School records that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Legacy Elem Charter School shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Legacy Elem Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.2%, the actual is 23.1%, a residual of +4.9 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 the poverty rate sits near 10%. Legacy Elem Charter School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: North Lawndale Prep Chtr - Christ, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Legacy Elem Charter School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 11.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. Legacy Elem Charter School 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. Legacy Elem Charter School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 465 (now 458). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 97% to 91%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 58.1:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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