YCCS-Innovations of Arts Integr

YCCS-Innovations of Arts Integr operates as a tight-knit senior high in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 392 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 53% leaner than typical.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), YCCS-Innovations of Arts Integr accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, YCCS-Innovations of Arts Integr lists that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder is composed of 11% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 32.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, YCCS-Innovations of Arts Integr sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 19.9%; actual is 1.5%, a gap of -18.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household earnings sit near $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-Innovations of Arts Integr is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Noble St Chtr-Muchin College Prep, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, YCCS-Innovations of Arts Integr comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. YCCS-Innovations of Arts Integr is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. YCCS-Innovations of Arts Integr's enrollment has contracted 4% since 2018, when it stood at 409 (now 392).

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