Ogden Int High School

Ogden Int High School is one of the cozy high schools in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 519 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Ogden Int High School sits 38% smaller than that benchmark.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Ogden Int High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ogden Int High School reports that the largest single group is Black at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 38% Hispanic, 12% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 104 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 5.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at Ogden Int High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Ogden Int High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.2%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Ogden Int High School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Noble St Chtr Rauner College Prep is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ogden Int High School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ogden Int High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 20.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 42%: 890 students in 2018 compared to 519 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 23% to 12% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 9.0:1 in 2018 to 5.0:1 today.

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