School of Social Justice HS

School of Social Justice HS is one of the tiny secondary schools in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 269 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so School of Social Justice HS sits 68% below that benchmark.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; School of Social Justice HS is among them.

On the student-mix side, School of Social Justice HS logs that nearly all students (81%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 18% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, School of Social Justice HS records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 94% 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, School of Social Justice HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.2%, the actual is 10.7%, a residual of -6.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Cook County shows median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. School of Social Justice HS is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

World Language High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), School of Social Justice HS ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 20.1%.

School of Social Justice HS operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 285 students in 2018 compared to 269 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 11% to 18% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

On the community side, members of the School of Social Justice HS community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.