New Beginnings Learning Academy

Located at 15703 Clyde Ave, in South Holland, Illinois, New Beginnings Learning Academy is an intimate elementary campus that teaches 288 students (grades K through 5), run under Dolton SD 149. That puts it 24% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Across the 8 schools in Dolton SD 149 (2,192 students total), New Beginnings Learning Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, New Beginnings Learning Academy reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (97%). Other groups include 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, New Beginnings Learning Academy records 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.2:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, New Beginnings Learning Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 14.2%; this one delivers 14.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cook County) records that median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), New Beginnings Learning Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: School of Fine Arts, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around New Beginnings Learning Academy. On composite proficiency, New Beginnings Learning Academy comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 19.2%.

New Beginnings Learning Academy operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. New Beginnings Learning Academy's enrollment has fell 20% since 2018, when it stood at 358 (now 288).

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.