Crane Medical Prep HS

Crane Medical Prep HS, an one-room-style high school in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, hosts 295 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Crane Medical Prep HS sits 65% below that benchmark.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Crane Medical Prep HS is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Crane Medical Prep HS lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%); the rest breaks down as 17% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Crane Medical Prep HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.2%, the actual is 8.0%, a residual of -13.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate 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%. Crane Medical Prep HS is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Dett Elem School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Crane Medical Prep HS. On composite proficiency, Crane Medical Prep HS comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Crane Medical Prep HS has shrank 39%, going from 481 students in 2018 to 295 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 73% to 82% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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