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Chicago, Illinois - 5 schools
94
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Idjj Sch Dist 428 operates 5 public schools serving 94 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 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.
a 28.8:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 56.7% African American, 21.2% White, 13.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Il Youth Center - Pere Marquette, with a diversity index of 65.3/100.
School District 428 Iyc-Hrb accounts for 29.2% of all Idjj Sch Dist 428 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Idjj Sch Dist 428-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Idjj Sch Dist 428 school enrollment varies 3.5× across entities
Idjj Sch Dist 428 school enrollment ranges from 12 students (lowest) to 42 students (highest), a spread of 30 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Idjj Sch Dist 428 student-counselor ratio is 29:1 — 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.