Noble St Chtr Rauner College Prep

Noble St Chtr Rauner College Prep is one of the modestly sized high schools in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 558 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Noble St Chtr Rauner College Prep sits 33% smaller than that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Noble St Chtr Rauner College Prep logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 27% Black, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Noble St Chtr Rauner College Prep performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.5%, the actual is 15.8%, a residual of -6.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Cook County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Noble St Chtr Rauner College Prep is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Ogden Int High School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Noble St Chtr Rauner College Prep at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 22.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Noble St Chtr Rauner College Prep is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Noble St Chtr Rauner College Prep's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 633 (now 558). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 79% to 69% over that span.

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