Noble St Chtr-Butler - Crimson

Located at 821 E 103rd St, in Chicago, Illinois, Noble St Chtr-Butler - Crimson is a close-knit 9-12 campus that works with 695 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Noble St Chtr-Butler - Crimson is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Noble St Chtr-Butler - Crimson reports that nearly all students (94%) are Black. The remainder is composed of 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Noble St Chtr-Butler - Crimson has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Noble St Chtr-Butler - Crimson higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Noble St Chtr-Butler - Crimson sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.3%; this one delivers 13.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cook County) records that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Noble St Chtr-Butler - Crimson is one.

The closest other public school is Corliss High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Noble St Chtr-Butler - Crimson. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Noble St Chtr-Butler - Crimson ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 31.5%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. Noble St Chtr-Butler - Crimson is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 7%: 647 students in 2018 compared to 695 in 2025.

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