Chicago Vocational Career Acad HS

Chicago Vocational Career Acad HS, a small four-year high school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, educates 673 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Chicago Vocational Career Acad HS is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Chicago Vocational Career Acad HS shows that nearly all students (89%) are Black. Other groups include 9% Hispanic. 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 employs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 92% of students at Chicago Vocational Career Acad HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Chicago Vocational Career Acad HS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 18.5%; this one comes in at 4.3%, -14.2 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Chicago Vocational Career Acad HS is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The closest other public school is Hoyne Elem School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chicago Vocational Career Acad HS ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.1%.

Chicago Vocational Career Acad HS operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chicago Vocational Career Acad HS has ticked down 22%, going from 861 students in 2018 to 673 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 97% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Chicago Vocational Career Acad HS typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.