Collins Academy STEAM High School

Collins Academy STEAM High School, a rural-scale 9-12 campus in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, caters to 228 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 73% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Collins Academy STEAM High School is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that hosts 324,396 students overall.

Demographically, Collins Academy STEAM High School records that nearly all students (98%) are Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Collins Academy STEAM High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.3%, the actual is 4.7%, a residual of -10.6 points.

In the broader community, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Collins Academy STEAM High School is one.

North Lawndale Prep Chtr-Collins is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Collins Academy STEAM High School. On composite proficiency, Collins Academy STEAM High School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 14.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Collins Academy STEAM High School has declined 13%, going from 261 students in 2018 to 228 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.

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