Solorio Academy High School

Solorio Academy High School is a heavily attended four-year high school in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. The school teaches 1,287 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 54% above typical.

Solorio Academy High School is one of 622 schools operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, a district that educates 324,396 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Solorio Academy High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Solorio Academy High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, Solorio Academy High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.2%, the actual is 29.9%, a residual of +10.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cook County put 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 Solorio Academy High School is one.

Hernandez Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Solorio Academy High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 25.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Solorio Academy High School's enrollment has expanded 8% since 2018, when it stood at 1,195 (now 1,287). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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