The top reported proficiency rate is 25% in English language arts. The lowest is 8% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Bronzeville Academy Chtr School
Bronzeville Academy Charter School served kindergarten through eighth grade and operated as a charter district in Cook County, Illinois. The school is no longer in operation. In May 2024, the Illinois State Board of Education revoked the school's charter, and Bronzeville Academy permanently closed at the end of the 2023-24 school year. The closure followed the loss of the school's building on South Cottage Grove, which was sold; that building later sustained severe flood damage in April 2024. The school had temporarily relocated to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters but was unable to meet state deadlines to secure a permanent new facility. Roughly a few hundred students had to transition to new schools for the 2024-25 school year.
For families seeking information about this school, it is important to know that it no longer accepts enrollment and is not an option for the upcoming school year. This represents the most significant change possible: the school's complete closure.
The academic data available comes from the 2023-24 school year, the school's final year of operation. On Illinois state assessments, Bronzeville Academy's proficiency rates were substantially below the median among Cook County's districts. In English language arts, performance varied across grades, with stronger results in sixth and eighth grades but weak results in third through fifth grades. In mathematics, proficiency was low across all tested grades, ranging from very low in fifth and seventh grades to higher but still modest rates in third grade. Science proficiency in fifth and eighth grades was also low. Overall, the school's proficiency index placed it in the bottom quartile among Cook County districts.
The school served approximately a few hundred students, almost entirely drawn from the Black community. Data on free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility and special populations such as English learners and students with IEPs were not reported. Chronic absenteeism at the school was above the median for the county, placing it in the bottom quartile on that measure.
Since the school no longer operates, families who were enrolled or considering enrollment must look to other schools in the Chicago area for their children's education.
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