White Elem Career Academy

White Elem Career Academy operates as an one-room-style primary school in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 116 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 70% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; White Elem Career Academy is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, White Elem Career Academy logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%). The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, White Elem Career Academy has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting White Elem Career Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. About 92% 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, White Elem Career Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 18.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.3%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), White Elem Career Academy is one campus in the mix.

Colemon J Elem Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 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 White Elem Career Academy at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 22.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at White Elem Career Academy has edged down 28%, going from 162 students in 2018 to 116 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 99% to 94% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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