Farragut Career Academy HS

As a small four-year high school in Chicago, Illinois, Farragut Career Academy HS enrolls 490 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Enrollment runs roughly 41% below the state mean of about 834.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Farragut Career Academy HS is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Farragut Career Academy HS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Beyond that, the school shows 13% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, Farragut Career Academy HS logs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Farragut Career Academy HS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 17.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 12.7%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 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 Farragut Career Academy HS is one.

The closest other public school is Kanoon Elem Magnet School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Farragut Career Academy HS at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 18.6%.

Farragut Career Academy HS operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Farragut Career Academy HS has decreased 33%, going from 728 students in 2018 to 490 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 91% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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