Urban Prep Chtr Acad Englewood HS

Set in Chicago, Illinois, Urban Prep Chtr Acad Englewood HS is a minimally staffed high school, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It educates 87 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 90% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Urban Prep Chtr Acad Englewood HS is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Urban Prep Chtr Acad Englewood HS logs that nearly all students (93%) are Black; the rest breaks down as 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.7:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 92% of students at Urban Prep Chtr Acad Englewood HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Urban Prep Chtr Acad Englewood HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.4%, the actual is 7.2%, a residual of -11.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cook County) reports that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Urban Prep Chtr Acad Englewood HS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Noble St Chtr-Johnson Colg Prep, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Urban Prep Chtr Acad Englewood HS at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 18.5%.

The school occupies a city-core site. Urban Prep Chtr Acad Englewood HS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 67%: 260 students in 2018 compared to 87 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 100% to 93%.

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