Noble St Chtr-The Noble Academy

Noble St Chtr-The Noble Academy operates as a small four-year high school in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 415 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Noble St Chtr-The Noble Academy sits 50% smaller than that benchmark.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Noble St Chtr-The Noble Academy is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Noble St Chtr-The Noble Academy shows that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 43% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Noble St Chtr-The Noble Academy has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Noble St Chtr-The Noble Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.2%, the actual is 22.0%, a residual of -2.2 points.

Around the school, census data for Cook County shows median household income runs about $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-The Noble Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Skinner Elem School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Noble St Chtr-The Noble Academy comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. As a public charter, Noble St Chtr-The Noble Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 15%: 489 students in 2018 compared to 415 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share increased from 46% to 51%.

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