Perspectives Chtr - IIT Campus

As a close-knit 9-12 campus in Chicago, Illinois, Perspectives Chtr - IIT Campus caters to 413 students from grades 6 through 12, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Enrollment runs roughly 50% leaner than the state mean of about 834.

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

Demographically, Perspectives Chtr - IIT Campus reports that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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.

After controlling for student poverty, Perspectives Chtr - IIT Campus performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.7%, the actual is 10.3%, a residual of -7.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, 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%. Perspectives Chtr - IIT Campus is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Wells Preparatory Elem Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Perspectives Chtr - IIT Campus comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.5%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. Perspectives Chtr - IIT Campus operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Perspectives Chtr - IIT Campus's enrollment has ticked down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 462 (now 413).

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