Marshall Metropolitan High School

Located at 3250 W Adams St, in Chicago, Illinois, Marshall Metropolitan High School is a minimally staffed secondary school that serves 239 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Enrollment runs roughly 71% leaner than the state mean of about 834.

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

On demographics, Marshall Metropolitan High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (89%). Beyond that, the school lists 10% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Marshall Metropolitan High School records 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 94% of students at Marshall Metropolitan High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, Marshall Metropolitan High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.4%, the actual is 5.5%, a residual of -11.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household earnings sit near $83,498, 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), Marshall Metropolitan High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Faraday Elem School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Marshall Metropolitan High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Marshall Metropolitan High School's enrollment has ticked down 29% since 2018, when it stood at 337 (now 239). Black enrollment moved from 98% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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