YCCS-Scholastic Achievement HS

YCCS-Scholastic Achievement HS, a very small four-year high school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, instructs 117 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 86% below typical.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. YCCS-Scholastic Achievement HS is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, YCCS-Scholastic Achievement HS reports that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 93% 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, YCCS-Scholastic Achievement HS is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 17.7%; YCCS-Scholastic Achievement HS posts 2.3%, -15.4 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate 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%. YCCS-Scholastic Achievement HS is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Hefferan Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts YCCS-Scholastic Achievement HS at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 13.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. YCCS-Scholastic Achievement HS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. YCCS-Scholastic Achievement HS's enrollment has decreased 24% since 2018, when it stood at 154 (now 117). Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 95% to 91%.

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