Corliss High School

Corliss High School is one of the close-knit 9-12 campuss in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 430 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 48% below the state mean of about 834.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Corliss High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Corliss High School logs that nearly all students (86%) are Black. Other groups include 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Corliss High School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. 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), Corliss High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.6%; this one delivers 8.5%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Corliss High School is one campus in the mix.

Noble St Chtr-Butler - Crimson is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Corliss High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 40%: 308 students in 2018 compared to 430 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 98% to 86%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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