Legal Prep Academy Charter HS

Located at 4319 W Washington Blvd, in Chicago, Illinois, Legal Prep Academy Charter HS is a micro-enrollment senior high that works with 210 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 75% leaner than typical.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Legal Prep Academy Charter HS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Legal Prep Academy Charter HS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (97%). The remainder breaks down as 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Legal Prep Academy Charter HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.1%, the actual is 3.5%, a residual of -11.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Legal Prep Academy Charter HS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Tilton Elem School, roughly 0.2 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), Legal Prep Academy Charter HS ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 15.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Legal Prep Academy Charter HS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 31%: 306 students in 2018 compared to 210 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.