YCCS-ASPIRA Pantoja Alt HS

As a minimally staffed high school in Chicago, Illinois, YCCS-ASPIRA Pantoja Alt HS works with 200 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. That puts it 76% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; YCCS-ASPIRA Pantoja Alt HS is among them.

Demographically, YCCS-ASPIRA Pantoja Alt HS logs that nearly all students (93%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 4% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, YCCS-ASPIRA Pantoja Alt HS records 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, YCCS-ASPIRA Pantoja Alt HS is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 16.6%; YCCS-ASPIRA Pantoja Alt HS posts 1.9%, -14.8 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Cook County reports that 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%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), YCCS-ASPIRA Pantoja Alt HS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ASPIRA Charter - Early College Pr, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, YCCS-ASPIRA Pantoja Alt HS comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.1%.

YCCS-ASPIRA Pantoja Alt HS operates from a high-density location. YCCS-ASPIRA Pantoja Alt HS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. YCCS-ASPIRA Pantoja Alt HS's enrollment has increased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 180 (now 200).

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