Clark Acad Prep Magnet High Schl

Clark Acad Prep Magnet High Schl is one of the tight-knit 9-12 campuss in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 453 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Clark Acad Prep Magnet High Schl sits 46% below that benchmark.

Clark Acad Prep Magnet High Schl is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that caters to 324,396 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Clark Acad Prep Magnet High Schl records that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 90% of students at Clark Acad Prep Magnet High Schl qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Clark Acad Prep Magnet High Schl sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.8%; this one delivers 8.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Clark Acad Prep Magnet High Schl is one.

Leland Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 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), Clark Acad Prep Magnet High Schl ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 16.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Clark Acad Prep Magnet High Schl's enrollment has declined 16% since 2018, when it stood at 542 (now 453). Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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