Marine Leadership Academy - Ames

Marine Leadership Academy - Ames is a four-year high school of low-enrollment scale in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, enrolling 549 students in grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 34% leaner than the state mean of about 834.

Marine Leadership Academy - Ames is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that educates 324,396 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Marine Leadership Academy - Ames shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). The remainder breaks down as 3% White, 2% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Marine Leadership Academy - Ames has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Marine Leadership Academy - Ames qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Marine Leadership Academy - Ames performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.9%, the actual is 15.0%, a residual of -8.8 points.

Across the wider county, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), Marine Leadership Academy - Ames is one campus in the mix.

McAuliffe Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Marine Leadership Academy - Ames comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 19.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Marine Leadership Academy - Ames's enrollment has decreased 37% since 2018, when it stood at 867 (now 549). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.