Hyde Park Academy High School

Hyde Park Academy High School operates as a reasonably sized secondary school in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 838 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

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

On the student-mix side, Hyde Park Academy High School reports that nearly all students (96%) are Black. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Hyde Park Academy High School has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Hyde Park Academy High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 97% of students at Hyde Park Academy High School qualify 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hyde Park Academy High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 15.6%; this one delivers 4.8%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Hyde Park Academy High School is one campus in the mix.

Carnegie Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hyde Park Academy High School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 24.2%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hyde Park Academy High School has showed little movement, going from 850 students in 2018 to 838 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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