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Enrollment
577
High
DISTRICT 706 · STATE 834
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000923
Kelvyn Park High School
4343 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60639 · (773) 534-4200 · Cook County
GRADES 07–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL577 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 0% of Illinois public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public high schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
464 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 47 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 60 | 10% |
| Grade 9 | 123 | 21% |
| Grade 10 | 136 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 117 | 20% |
| Grade 12 | 94 | 16% |
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
9.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +5.9pp since 2023
Math
1.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 9 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 1 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 9.0% | 1.3% |
| 2023-24 | 3.1% | 0.8% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
4.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 5% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 25% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Kelvyn Park High School
Kelvyn Park High School's state test result (4.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kelvyn Park High School this school | 577 | 80.4% | 4.9% |
| Marine Leadership Academy - Ames Chicago | 549 | 82.5% | 15.0% |
| Aspira Charter - Bus and Fin Chicago | 426 | 83.8% | 9.5% |
| Chicago Academy High School Chicago | 580 | 77.2% | 31.8% |
| Foreman High School Chicago | 650 | 88.6% | 8.7% |
| Phoenix Military Academy High School Chicago | 372 | 87.4% | 23.0% |
Matched among Illinois high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Kelvyn Park High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 4.9% | #545 of 573 | #142 of 170 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 1.3% | #75 of 75 no change | #19 of 19 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 9.0% | #73 of 75 ▲ 1 | #19 of 19 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 577 | #306 of 708 | #126 of 206 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #236 of 528 | #64 of 173 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.1% | #351 of 537 | #124 of 180 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.4% | #117 of 578 | #102 of 171 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +25.7% | #23 of 191 | #14 of 86 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
577
+83 (+17%) vs 2020
-63% since 1990-91, when it was 1,541
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 577 | 41.3 | 14.0:1 | 80% (464) |
| 2023-24 | 525 | 45 | 11.7:1 | 85% (444) |
| 2022-23 | 514 | 42.5 | 12.1:1 | 89% (456) |
| 2020-21 | 494 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 459 | 24.9 | 18.4:1 | 96% (441) |
| 2015-16 | 695 | 42 | 16.6:1 | 97% (673) |
| 2010-11 | 1,411 | 84 | 16.8:1 | 75% (1,057) |
| 2000-01 | 2,029 | 131 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,541 | 98 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kelvyn Park High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 26% (459 to 577); teachers up 66% (24.9 to 41.3).
About Kelvyn Park High School
Kelvyn Park High School is a low-enrollment high school in Chicago, Illinois. Students in grades 7 through 12 attend, and enrollment is 577 students. The school's enrollment is 31% smaller than the 834 average for high schools in Illinois.
Kelvyn Park High School belongs to Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district of 622 schools and 324,396 students.
Federal enrollment data show Kelvyn Park High School is 88% Hispanic. Other groups make up 10% Black. Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The school's diversity index is 22%, meaning two students picked at random have a 22% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school reports 41.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 14.0 students per teacher. That is close to the 13.8:1 average for high schools in Illinois. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 80%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Cook County is 66%.
allk12 grades Kelvyn Park High School an F. The grade compares the school only with Illinois public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
In Illinois, Kelvyn Park High School is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 4.9% compared with a predicted 25.1%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Cook County show that the median household income is $83,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Besides Kelvyn Park High School, Cook County has 1,405 other public schools.
Nearest public school: Barry Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 18.1% on proficiency, and Kelvyn Park High School is below that at 4.9%.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
Enrollment at Kelvyn Park High School grew 17% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 494 to 577 students.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Kelvyn Park High School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
- Curie Metropolitan High SchoolHigh · 3,099 students
- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Other schools in Chicago
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
- Curie Metropolitan High SchoolHigh · 3,099 students
- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Nearby schools
- Barry Elementary School0.4 mi · 473
- Nixon Elementary School0.6 mi · 672
- Mozart Elementary School0.8 mi · 499
- Lloyd Elementary School0.8 mi · 844
- ASPIRA Charter - Early College Pr0.9 mi · 285
- Intrinsic Charter High School0.9 mi · 993
Frequently asked questions
About Kelvyn Park High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Kelvyn Park High School?
Kelvyn Park High School enrolls approximately 577 students in grades 07-12.
What age range does Kelvyn Park High School serve?
Kelvyn Park High School serves students from grade 07 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Kelvyn Park High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Kelvyn Park High School is approximately 14.0:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Kelvyn Park High School?
Student demographics at Kelvyn Park High School are roughly 1% White, 88% Hispanic, 10% Black, 0% Two or more.
What district is Kelvyn Park High School in?
Kelvyn Park High School is part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.