With 1,400 students, Chicago elementary school struggles with overcrowding

From The Chicago Tribune: Another academic year has kicked off at Reinberg Elementary School in Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood, and halfway into the first day of school this week, the stress meter on the crowded campus pointed toward 10 more months of frustration. A swell in enrollment to 1,400 students this year has forced school officials to scramble for more space on a tiny campus already cramped with its 12 mobile classrooms and a 12-room annex built in 1996. Reinberg is among 64 overcrowded elementary schools in Chicago. Most of them are concentrated in neighborhoods on the Northwest and Southwest Sides where Latino immigrants with young children have replaced empty-nesters.