Noble St Chtr-Rowe-Clark MS Acad

Noble St Chtr-Rowe-Clark MS Acad is a senior high of very small scale in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, caters to 320 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 62% below typical.

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

Looking at the student body, Noble St Chtr-Rowe-Clark MS Acad shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (87%). Beyond that, the school logs 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Noble St Chtr-Rowe-Clark MS Acad has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Noble St Chtr-Rowe-Clark MS Acad tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 16.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 9.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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-Rowe-Clark MS Acad is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ward L Elem School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Noble St Chtr-Rowe-Clark MS Acad. On composite proficiency, Noble St Chtr-Rowe-Clark MS Acad comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 20.1%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. Noble St Chtr-Rowe-Clark MS Acad operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 31%: 461 students in 2018 compared to 320 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment expanded from 75% to 87% over that span.

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