Raby High School

Located at 3545 W Fulton Blvd, in Chicago, Illinois, Raby High School is a very small high school that instructs 128 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 85% leaner than typical.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Raby High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Raby High School records that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 13% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Raby High School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 16.9%; Raby High School posts 1.2%, -15.8 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Raby High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Westinghouse High School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Raby High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 16.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Raby High School's enrollment has contracted 66% since 2018, when it stood at 381 (now 128). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 93% to 86%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 5.2:1 today.

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