YCCS Chtr - Chatham

YCCS Chtr - Chatham operates as a minimally staffed 9-12 campus in Chicago, Illinois, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 104 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 88% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

YCCS Chtr - Chatham is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that works with 324,396 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, YCCS Chtr - Chatham reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (95%). Beyond that, the school logs 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, YCCS Chtr - Chatham shows 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 34.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 97% of students are eligible 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%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, YCCS Chtr - Chatham tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 15.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 2.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which YCCS Chtr - Chatham is one.

Nearest neighbor: Burnside Elem Scholastic Academy, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), YCCS Chtr - Chatham ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site. YCCS Chtr - Chatham operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. YCCS Chtr - Chatham's enrollment has ticked down 37% since 2018, when it stood at 164 (now 104). Black enrollment moved from 99% to 95% across the same window.

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