Bogan High School

Bogan High School is one of the reasonably sized secondary schools in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 716 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Bogan High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Bogan High School shows that the largest single group is Black at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 45% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Bogan High School has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 86% 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bogan High School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 22.0%; Bogan High School posts 7.0%, -15.0 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Cook County shows median household earnings sit near $83,498, 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), Bogan High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Dawes Elem School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bogan High School. On composite proficiency, Bogan High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 27.3%.

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

Five-year trend. Bogan High School's enrollment has contracted 8% since 2018, when it stood at 778 (now 716). Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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