Morgan Park High School

Set in Chicago, Illinois, Morgan Park High School is a high-enrollment four-year high school, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It enrolls 1,349 students across grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 62% above the state mean of about 834.

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

On demographics, Morgan Park High School lists that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder consists of 4% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Morgan Park High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 78% of students at Morgan Park High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Morgan Park High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.5%; this one delivers 26.6%.

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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Morgan Park High School is one.

Esmond Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Morgan Park High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 20.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 6%: 1,267 students in 2018 compared to 1,349 in 2025.

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