Young Elem School

Set in Chicago, Illinois, Young Elem School is a reasonably sized primary school, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It instructs 417 students across grades pre-K through 8.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Young Elem School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Young Elem School lists that Black students make up the majority at 66%. Beyond that, the school lists 31% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Young Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.0%; this one delivers 15.6%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cook County shows median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Young Elem School is one.

Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Young Elem School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Young Elem School's enrollment has decreased 48% since 2018, when it stood at 808 (now 417). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 87% to 66%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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