IHSCA Charter High School

Located at 2520 S Western Ave, in Chicago, Illinois, IHSCA Charter High School is a close-knit senior high that caters to 567 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. That puts it 32% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. IHSCA Charter High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, IHSCA Charter High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). Other groups include 3% Black. 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, Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, IHSCA Charter High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.3%, the actual is 11.8%, a residual of -6.4 points.

In the surrounding community, Cook County reports that median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. IHSCA Charter High School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The closest other public school is IJLA Charter High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 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), IHSCA Charter High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 21.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, IHSCA Charter High School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at IHSCA Charter High School has contracted 24%, going from 749 students in 2018 to 567 in 2025.

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