Multicultural Arts High School

Set in Chicago, Illinois, Multicultural Arts High School is a very small senior high, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It serves 283 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 66% leaner than the state mean of about 834.

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

Demographically, Multicultural Arts High School reports that nearly all students (81%) are Hispanic; the rest comes out to 18% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Multicultural Arts High School shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Multicultural Arts High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Multicultural Arts 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 10.6%, a residual of -6.8 points.

In the area at large, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, 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), Multicultural Arts High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: World Language High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Multicultural Arts High School. On composite proficiency, Multicultural Arts High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 20.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 27%: 223 students in 2018 compared to 283 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 12% to 18% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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