City of Chicago SD 299
Chicago, IL · 623 schools · 321,666 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
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Frequently Asked Questions
City of Chicago SD 299 has 623 schools serving 321,666 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 39%. The average graduation rate is 70%.
City of Chicago SD 299 operates 623 public schools, including Lane Technical High School, Taft High School, Curie Metropolitan High School, Kenwood Academy High School, Young Magnet High School and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in City of Chicago SD 299 is approximately 70% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in City of Chicago SD 299 is Lane Technical High School with 4,496 students.
City of Chicago SD 299 serves 321,666 students across 623 schools in IL, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
City of Chicago SD 299's average proficiency rate of 39% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is below average and may indicate room for improvement. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in City of Chicago SD 299 to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.