Ace Amandla Charter School operates 1 public schools serving 140 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Cook County.
a 137:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 59.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 50.0% African American, 47.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Ace Amandla Charter School, enrolling 137 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 2.1% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (140 to 137 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 11.0 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Ace Amandla Charter School accounts for 97.9% of all Ace Amandla Charter School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ace Amandla Charter School a distant remainder — means Ace Amandla Charter School-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Ace Amandla Charter School student-counselor ratio is 137:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Ace Amandla Charter School chronic absenteeism rate is 59.1% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
How many schools are in Ace Amandla Charter School?
Ace Amandla Charter School has 1 school, including 1 high. Total enrollment is 140 students.
What is the demographic composition of Ace Amandla Charter School?
Ace Amandla Charter School students are 50.0% African American, 47.8% Hispanic or Latino, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.