Uplift Community High School

Set in Chicago, Illinois, Uplift Community High School is a very small high school, operated by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It enrolls 224 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 73% leaner than typical.

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

Looking at the student body, Uplift Community High School reports that the largest single group is Black, at 59% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 32% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Uplift Community High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 72% of students at Uplift Community High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Uplift Community High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 30.0%; actual is 9.8%, a gap of -20.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Cook County put 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), Uplift Community High School is one campus in the mix.

YCCS-Truman Middle College HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 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), Uplift Community High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 241 students in 2018 compared to 224 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 80% to 59% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 today.

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