J Sterling Morton Freshman Cntr

J Sterling Morton Freshman Cntr runs as a mid-sized high school in Cicero, Illinois. The school runs grade 9 and enrolls 941 students.

J S Morton HSD 201 counts 7,709 students in its 3 schools, and J Sterling Morton Freshman Cntr is one of them.

Hispanic students account for 97% of the school's enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 2% Black. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 27%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 6, compared with 70 nationally.

J Sterling Morton Freshman Cntr reports a ratio of 12.6 students per teacher, from 75 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 12.6:1 compares with an average of 13.8:1 for high schools in Illinois. Lunch program data show 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 26 points.

The county, Cook County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $83,498 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Cook County has 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students, including J Sterling Morton Freshman Cntr.

Of the public schools around it, J Sterling Morton Freshman Cntr is closest to Unity Jr High School, about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

In the federal locale system, J Sterling Morton Freshman Cntr is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 192 students, from 1,133 to 941.

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