Learn Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp, Chicago IL

Original Research by School Decision on Learn Chtr - Hunter Perkins Camp

LEARN Charter at Hunter Perkins Campus is a small school serving roughly half a thousand students from kindergarten through eighth grade in Chicago's South Side. It is part of Chicago Public Schools and operates as a charter school, meaning it has distinct autonomy in hiring, curriculum, and operations while remaining publicly funded.

The student body is predominantly African American, with a small number of Latino, white, and multiracial students. Data on free or reduced price lunch eligibility, English learner status, and special education enrollment was not available, so a reader cannot determine from the provided figures what share of students qualify for economically disadvantaged support or language services. The absence of those details is a significant gap when assessing the school's resource needs and baseline student composition.

State assessment results from the 2024-25 school year paint a picture of academic performance that requires close examination. Reading proficiency is uneven across grades: third graders are at the lower end of the range, fourth graders perform substantially below, fifth graders reach above the midpoint, and sixth and seventh graders sit in the middle-to-upper range. Eighth graders show markedly strong performance in reading. Math proficiency, by contrast, is low across the board: only a small share of students in grades three through seven meet state standards, and eighth-grade math proficiency drops to single digits. Science testing is available only for grades five and eight; both grades show weak results. Participation rates in testing are high, exceeding ninety percent in all tested areas, so these figures reflect actual student performance rather than incomplete testing.

Relative to the school districts serving Cook County, this school's overall proficiency index sits below the midpoint. A parent may want to look into this further with the school to understand both what drives the particularly weak math results and what instruction or intervention is underway to address them. ELA strength in the eighth grade is noteworthy and worth exploring—whether it reflects effective instruction in upper grades, student population changes, or other factors.

The school sits at West 83rd Street on Chicago's South Side, in a neighborhood with modest median home values and rents. The broader Chicago region has shown renewed housing growth over the past few years, though the overall market is moderately tight with slower demand relative to supply. The area is served by public transit, giving families access to the city's 'L' rail and bus network.

Chicago Public Schools is undergoing structural change. The district transitioned from a fully mayor-appointed board to a hybrid model in late 2024, with a fully elected 21-member board set to take office in 2027. The district has also adopted a five-year strategic plan titled Together We Rise that emphasizes neighborhood schools over the decades-long school-choice model, and it replaced its numeric school ratings with holistic dashboards in December 2024. These shifts reshape how the district allocates resources and how families evaluate schools. The district has also introduced Skyline, a comprehensive PreK-12 curriculum that is available at no additional cost to schools, standardizing instructional materials across campuses.

For a family considering this school, the key questions are whether the weak math results reflect a recent shift or a persistent pattern, what supports are in place to address foundational skills in the lower grades, and how the school's instructional program and student body align with the family's priorities. The strong eighth-grade reading performance suggests the school can achieve results in upper grades, but the wide variance across grades and subjects warrants direct conversation with school leadership.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 327%

School 27% · District 38% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 410%

School 10% · District 29% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 27 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 526%

School 26% · District 24% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 626%

School 26% · District 23% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Grade 728%

School 28% · District 27% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 88%

School 8% · District 23% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 36%

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 428%

School 28% · District 39% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 562%

School 62% · District 43% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 657%

School 57% · District 45% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 749%

School 49% · District 46% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 880%

School 80% · District 48% · ▲ 32 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

Science

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 29% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 85%

School 5% · District 31% · ▼ 26 pts below district

▼ 34 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

This schoolChicago Public Schools Dist 299, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.