Wells Community Academy HS

Wells Community Academy HS is one of the tight-knit secondary schools in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 398 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 52% below the state mean of about 834.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Wells Community Academy HS is among them.

On the student-mix side, Wells Community Academy HS records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 38% Black, 10% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Wells Community Academy HS lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Wells Community Academy HS tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wells Community Academy HS is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 27.1%; Wells Community Academy HS posts 7.4%, -19.7 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Wells Community Academy HS is one.

Noble St Chtr-Noble Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wells Community Academy HS comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.4%.

Wells Community Academy HS operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wells Community Academy HS has climbed 5%, going from 380 students in 2018 to 398 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 52% to 38% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.