Noble St Chtr-ITW Speer Acad

Noble St Chtr-ITW Speer Acad is a middle-of-the-pack secondary school in Chicago, Illinois, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school enrolls 1,135 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 36% above the state mean of about 834.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Noble St Chtr-ITW Speer Acad accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Noble St Chtr-ITW Speer Acad logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%); the rest comes out to 9% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Noble St Chtr-ITW Speer Acad tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.4%.

Around the school, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Noble St Chtr-ITW Speer Acad is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The closest other public school is Prosser Career Academy HS, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Noble St Chtr-ITW Speer Acad. On composite proficiency, Noble St Chtr-ITW Speer Acad comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 23.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site. Noble St Chtr-ITW Speer Acad is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 12%: 1,014 students in 2018 compared to 1,135 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 84% to 88% across the same window.

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