Spry Community Links High School

Spry Community Links High School operates as an one-room-style secondary school in Chicago, Illinois, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 82 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 90% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

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

Demographically, Spry Community Links High School logs that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 2% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 4.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Spry Community Links High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 25.0%; actual is 2.0%, a gap of -23.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Spry Community Links High School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Spry Elem Community School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Spry Community Links High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Spry Community Links High School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 19.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 37%: 131 students in 2018 compared to 82 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 4.2:1 today.

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