Perspectives Chtr - HS of Tech

Set in Chicago, Illinois, Perspectives Chtr - HS of Tech is a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It teaches 320 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 62% below typical.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Perspectives Chtr - HS of Tech is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Perspectives Chtr - HS of Tech logs that 98% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Roughly 95% of students at Perspectives Chtr - HS of Tech qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Perspectives Chtr - HS of Tech performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.6%, the actual is 9.3%, a residual of -7.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Cook County shows 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%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Perspectives Chtr - HS of Tech is one.

Perspectives Chtr - Leadership Ac is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Perspectives Chtr - HS of Tech at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 34.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. As a public charter, Perspectives Chtr - HS of Tech runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Perspectives Chtr - HS of Tech's enrollment has decreased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 333 (now 320).

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