McDade Elem Classical School

McDade Elem Classical School is a modestly sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school teaches 207 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so McDade Elem Classical School sits 46% below that benchmark.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, McDade Elem Classical School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, McDade Elem Classical School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting McDade Elem Classical School higher than the state norm the norm. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, McDade Elem Classical School ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 50.6%; McDade Elem Classical School posts 85.7%, +35.1 points above that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. McDade Elem Classical School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Neil Elem School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts McDade Elem Classical School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 17.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. McDade Elem Classical School's enrollment has rose 6% since 2018, when it stood at 195 (now 207). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

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