Carver Military Academy HS

Carver Military Academy HS is one of the small senior highs in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 420 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 50% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Carver Military Academy HS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Carver Military Academy HS lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 55%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest consists of 42% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Carver Military Academy HS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.5%; this one delivers 14.4%.

Zooming out to the county, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Carver Military Academy HS is one.

Carver Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carver Military Academy HS. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Carver Military Academy HS ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 18.5%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Carver Military Academy HS's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 479 (now 420). Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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