King College Prep High School

King College Prep High School, a mid-sized four-year high school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, works with 819 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

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

On demographics, King College Prep High School records that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, King College Prep High School lists 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at King College Prep 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 above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, King College Prep High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.7%; this one delivers 23.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), King College Prep High School is one campus in the mix.

Woodson South Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, King College Prep High School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 18.1%.

King College Prep High School operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 37%: 599 students in 2018 compared to 819 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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