Chicago Collegiate Charter School

Chicago Collegiate Charter School, an one-room-style four-year high school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, caters to 255 students, covering grades 5 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 69% smaller than the state mean of about 834.

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

Looking at the student body, Chicago Collegiate Charter School records that 98% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Roughly 89% of students at Chicago Collegiate Charter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Chicago Collegiate Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.3%, the actual is 11.5%, a residual of -8.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Chicago Collegiate Charter School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

CICS - Prairie Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Chicago Collegiate Charter School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 22.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site. Chicago Collegiate Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 32%: 374 students in 2018 compared to 255 in 2025.

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