Devry Advantage Academy High Schl

Devry Advantage Academy High Schl, a tiny secondary school in Chicago, Illinois, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, teaches 152 students, covering grades 11 through 12. That puts it 82% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Devry Advantage Academy High Schl accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Devry Advantage Academy High Schl reports that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 35% Black, 13% White, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Devry Advantage Academy High Schl sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.6%; this one delivers 43.5%.

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 roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Devry Advantage Academy High Schl is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: McPherson Elem School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Devry Advantage Academy High Schl comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 21%: 193 students in 2018 compared to 152 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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