​RT by @ChicagoContrar1: NEW: Chicago’s Frederick Douglass Academy High School has 47 classrooms built to serve 1,008 kids. But only 27 students are enrolled there. And the school employs 28 full-time staff. At 3% utilization, it is the emptiest big-city school in the country, according to Chicago Policy Center research. A few more facts about Douglass: 🔘 100% of seniors are categorized as chronically absent, meaning they miss 10% or more of school days. 🔘 No 11th grader could read or do math at grade level in SY23-24. 🔘 The school cost $93,000 per student in SY23-24. In a school district where one-third of school buildings sit at least half empty, Douglass illustrates the consequences of poor facilities planning: fewer opportunities for students and higher costs for taxpayers. https://www.thelastward.org/p/chicago-is-home-to-the-emptiest-big 

NEW: Chicago’s Frederick Douglass Academy High School has 47 classrooms built to serve 1,008 kids.

But only 27 students are enrolled there.

And the school employs 28 full-time staff.

At 3% utilization, it is the emptiest big-city school in the country, according to Chicago Policy Center research.

A few more facts about Douglass:
🔘 100% of seniors are categorized as chronically absent, meaning they miss 10% or more of school days.
🔘 No 11th grader could read or do math at grade level in SY23-24.
🔘 The school cost $93,000 per student in SY23-24.

In a school district where one-third of school buildings sit at least half empty, Douglass illustrates the consequences of poor facilities planning: fewer opportunities for students and higher costs for taxpayers.

thelastward.org/p/chicago-is…

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Chicago is home to the emptiest big-city school in the nation

Just 27 students are enrolled at Frederick Douglass Academy, which was built to serve more than 1,000 kids.

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