YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad

YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad operates as a very small high school in Chicago, Illinois, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 122 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 85% smaller than the state mean of about 834.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad shows that 99% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, On paper, YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad has 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 61.0:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 22.8%; YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad posts 0.8%, -21.9 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad is one.

Nearest neighbor: Brownell Elem School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 17.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. As a public charter, YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad's enrollment has edged down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 164 (now 122).

In the discussion threads here, members of the YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.