YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS

YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS is a secondary school of rural-scale scale in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, educateing 94 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 89% below typical.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS reports that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest comes out to 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.8:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 19.9%; YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS posts 2.9%, -17.0 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 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-Community Youth Dev Inst HS is one campus in the mix.

Oglesby Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 24.2%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS 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. YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS's enrollment has decreased 40% since 2018, when it stood at 156 (now 94).

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