Hirsch Metropolitan High School

Hirsch Metropolitan High School is one of the very small 9-12 campuss in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 183 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Hirsch Metropolitan High School sits 78% below that benchmark.

Hirsch Metropolitan High School is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that instructs 324,396 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Hirsch Metropolitan High School reports that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hirsch Metropolitan High School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 25.1%; Hirsch Metropolitan High School posts 4.4%, -20.7 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Hirsch Metropolitan High School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Betty Shabazz Internl Charter Sch, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hirsch Metropolitan High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 21.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Hirsch Metropolitan High School's enrollment has expanded 35% since 2018, when it stood at 136 (now 183). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 1% to 9%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.