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Noble St Chtr-Comer College Prep
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Noble St Chtr-Comer College Prep
Noble St Chtr-Comer College Prep is an average-sized secondary school in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school educates 1,007 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Noble St Chtr-Comer College Prep sits 21% bigger than that benchmark.
Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Noble St Chtr-Comer College Prep accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Noble St Chtr-Comer College Prep logs that 98% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 86% of students at Noble St Chtr-Comer College Prep qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Noble St Chtr-Comer College Prep performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.8%, the actual is 22.3%, a residual of +0.5 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Noble St Chtr-Comer College Prep is one.
Nearest neighbor: Revere Elem School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Noble St Chtr-Comer College Prep comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 16.4%.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. Noble St Chtr-Comer College Prep operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 8%: 1,096 students in 2018 compared to 1,007 in 2025.
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