Kelvyn Park High School

Kelvyn Park High School operates as a low-enrollment high school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 577 students spanning grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 31% below typical.

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

In terms of who attends, Kelvyn Park High School lists that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 10% Black. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Kelvyn Park High School has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 80% of students at Kelvyn Park High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kelvyn Park High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 25.1%; this one comes in at 4.9%, -20.2 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, Cook County reports that median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Kelvyn Park High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Barry Elem School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kelvyn Park High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kelvyn Park High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 18.1%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 26%: 459 students in 2018 compared to 577 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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