Curie Metropolitan High School

Curie Metropolitan High School is one of the sprawling four-year high schools in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 3,099 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 272% bigger than typical.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Curie Metropolitan High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Curie Metropolitan High School records that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 8% Black. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Curie Metropolitan High School has 198 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, Curie Metropolitan High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.0%, the actual is 18.4%, a residual of -3.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cook County) shows that median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Curie Metropolitan High School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Edwards Elem School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Curie Metropolitan High School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 6%: 2,918 students in 2018 compared to 3,099 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 81% to 88% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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