Phillips Academy High School

Located at 244 E Pershing Rd, in Chicago, Illinois, Phillips Academy High School is a tight-knit high school that serves 467 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Phillips Academy High School sits 44% below that benchmark.

Across the 622 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students total), Phillips Academy High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Phillips Academy High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (91%). Beyond that, the school lists 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 72% of students at Phillips Academy High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Phillips Academy High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 30.2%; actual is 6.3%, a gap of -23.9 points.

Across the wider county, Cook County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Phillips Academy High School is one.

The closest other public school is Wells Preparatory Elem Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Phillips Academy High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.3%.

Phillips Academy High School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Phillips Academy High School's enrollment has fell 25% since 2018, when it stood at 623 (now 467). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 98% to 91%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Phillips Academy High School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.