Bloom Trail High School

Bloom Trail High School is a moderately sized four-year high school in Chicago Heights, Illinois, overseen by Bloom Twp HSD 206. The school works with 1,218 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 46% bigger than the state mean of about 834.

Bloom Twp HSD 206 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 3,041 students; Bloom Trail High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Bloom Trail High School logs that 60% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 10% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bloom Trail High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.8%, the actual is 16.3%, a residual of -8.5 points.

In the area at large, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Bloom Trail High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cottage Grove Upper Grade Center, roughly 1.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bloom Trail High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bloom Trail High School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 22.3%.

Bloom Trail High School operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 1,266 students in 2018 compared to 1,218 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 27% across the same window.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.