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District-Level NCES Analysis
Horizon Science Acad-Belmont operates 1 public schools serving 555 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 785:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 23.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 63.6% Hispanic or Latino, 35.0% African American, 0.5% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Horizon Science Acad-Belmont, enrolling 785 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Horizon Science Acad-Belmont accounts for 100.0% of all Horizon Science Acad-Belmont student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Horizon Science Acad-Belmont a distant remainder — means Horizon Science Acad-Belmont-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.
Horizon Science Acad-Belmont student-counselor ratio is 785:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Horizon Science Acad-Belmont chronic absenteeism rate is 23.3% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Horizon Science Acad-Belmont is typically wider than the Horizon Science Acad-Belmont-aggregate figure suggests.