North-Grand High School

Located at 4338 W Wabansia Ave, in Chicago, Illinois, North-Grand High School is a reasonably sized four-year high school that educates 1,061 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Enrollment runs roughly 27% above the state mean of about 834.

North-Grand High School is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that educates 324,396 students overall.

In terms of who attends, North-Grand High School logs that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 20% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, North-Grand High School has 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, North-Grand High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.6%; this one delivers 15.6%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), North-Grand High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Noble St Chtr-Pritzker Col Prep, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, North-Grand High School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 20.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North-Grand High School has expanded 10%, going from 968 students in 2018 to 1,061 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment grew from 16% to 20% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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