Horizon Science Acad-Mckinley Pk operates 1 public schools serving 866 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (16 AP courses district-wide), a 436.5:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 27.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 82.5% Hispanic or Latino, 10.7% African American, 6.2% White across the district's schools.
Horizon Science Acad-Mckinley Pk accounts for 100.0% of all Horizon Science Acad-Mckinley Pk student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Horizon Science Acad-Mckinley Pk a distant remainder — means Horizon Science Acad-Mckinley Pk-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Horizon Science Acad-Mckinley Pk student-counselor ratio is 437:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Horizon Science Acad-Mckinley Pk chronic absenteeism rate is 27.8% — 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-Mckinley Pk is typically wider than the Horizon Science Acad-Mckinley Pk-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Horizon Science Acad-Mckinley Pk's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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