Northside College Preparatory Hs

Located at 5501 N Kedzie Ave, in Chicago, Illinois, Northside College Preparatory Hs is a reasonably sized high school that works with 1,061 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Enrollment runs roughly 27% above the state mean of about 834.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Northside College Preparatory Hs is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northside College Preparatory Hs logs that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 28% Hispanic, 23% Asian, 6% multiracial, 6% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Northside College Preparatory Hs has 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at Northside College Preparatory Hs qualify 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Northside College Preparatory Hs sits in the top 10% of Illinois schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 50.6%; actual is 92.2%, +41.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, 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 roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Northside College Preparatory Hs is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Peterson Elem School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Northside College Preparatory Hs comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Northside College Preparatory Hs's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 1,061 (now 1,061). White enrollment moved from 29% to 35% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Northside College Preparatory Hs community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.