Foreman High School

Foreman High School, a tight-knit secondary school in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, educates 650 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 22% below the state mean of about 834.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Foreman High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Foreman High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%). The remainder comes out to 13% Black, 5% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 89% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Foreman High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 20.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 8.7%.

In the broader community, Cook County reports that 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%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Foreman High School is one.

The closest other public school is Falconer Elem School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Foreman High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.0%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Foreman High School has shrank 19%, going from 798 students in 2018 to 650 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 22% to 13% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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