CICS - Bucktown Campus

CICS - Bucktown Campus is an elementary public charter school serving 537 students in grades K-8 in Chicago, Illinois. The school is part of the Chicago Public Schools District 299, which is ranked 698 out of 811 districts in the state and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.

CICS - Bucktown Campus consistently ranks in the bottom half of Illinois elementary schools, with low academic performance on state assessments that is significantly below the district and state averages across all grades and subjects. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, only 31.5% of students were proficient or better in English Language Arts, compared to 42.8% for the district and 53.1% for the state. In math, only 20.7% of students were proficient, compared to 27.3% for the district and 38.5% for the state. The school also struggles with high chronic absenteeism rates, ranging from 25.4% to 40.8% over the past few years.

While CICS - Bucktown Campus faces significant challenges, it does have some bright spots in its performance for certain student subgroups. For example, the school ranks in the top 25% of Illinois schools for African American students in English Language Arts and the top 50% for English Language Learners in math. However, the school still performs significantly worse than most of the nearby public schools in the area, such as Drummond Elementary, Goethe Elementary, and Chase Elementary, which generally have higher academic achievement, lower chronic absenteeism, and more favorable student-teacher ratios.