Maya Angelou Elem Sch

Located at 15748 Page Ave, in Harvey, Illinois, Maya Angelou Elem Sch is a close-knit elementary school that enrolls 271 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Harvey SD 152. That puts it 29% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Harvey SD 152 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,487 students; Maya Angelou Elem Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Maya Angelou Elem Sch reports that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 16% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Maya Angelou Elem Sch higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 76% of students at Maya Angelou Elem Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Maya Angelou Elem Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 27.8%; actual is 12.5%, a gap of -15.4 points.

Around the school, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Maya Angelou Elem Sch is one campus in the mix.

Barack H Obama Learning Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Maya Angelou Elem Sch comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 17.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Maya Angelou Elem Sch's enrollment has ticked down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 294 (now 271). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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