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Chicago, Illinois - 2 schools
574
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Betty Shabazz Internl Chrtr Sch operates 2 public schools serving 574 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary 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 262:1 student-counselor ratio, somewhat above the 250:1 ASCA recommendation, and 57.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.5% African American, 1.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.1% Asian across the district's schools.
Betty Shabazz Internl Charter Sch accounts for 51.0% of all Betty Shabazz Internl Chrtr Sch student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Betty Shabazz Internl Chrtr Sch a distant remainder — means Betty Shabazz Internl Chrtr Sch-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Betty Shabazz Internl Chrtr Sch student-counselor ratio is 262:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Betty Shabazz Internl Chrtr Sch is typically wider than the Betty Shabazz Internl Chrtr Sch-aggregate figure suggests.
Betty Shabazz Internl Chrtr Sch chronic absenteeism rate is 57.8% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Betty Shabazz Internl Chrtr Sch's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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