Univ of Chicago Chtr-Donoghue

Univ of Chicago Chtr-Donoghue operates as a moderately sized elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 499 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 31% larger than typical.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Univ of Chicago Chtr-Donoghue is among them.

Looking at the student body, Univ of Chicago Chtr-Donoghue logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (95%). Other groups include 3% 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, Univ of Chicago Chtr-Donoghue reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.7:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 85% of students at Univ of Chicago Chtr-Donoghue qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Univ of Chicago Chtr-Donoghue sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.7%; this one delivers 29.6%.

Around the school, census data for Cook County shows 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. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Univ of Chicago Chtr-Donoghue is one.

Nearest neighbor: James R Doolittle Academy, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Univ of Chicago Chtr-Donoghue comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 15.3%.

Univ of Chicago Chtr-Donoghue operates from an urban location. Univ of Chicago Chtr-Donoghue operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Univ of Chicago Chtr-Donoghue has edged down 7%, going from 534 students in 2018 to 499 in 2025.

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