YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican

YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican is a 9-12 campus of tiny scale in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, teacheing 184 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 78% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that hosts 324,396 students overall.

On the student-mix side, YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). Beyond that, the school logs 16% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 92% of students at YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 18.2%; this one comes in at 2.8%, -15.4 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household income runs about $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican is one.

The closest other public school is Chicago HS for the Arts, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 17.9%.

YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican operates from a metropolitan location. YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican 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. YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican's enrollment has contracted 8% since 2018, when it stood at 200 (now 184).

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