Taft High School
Chicago, IL · High School · Grades 7-12
Taft High School is a high school in Chicago, IL with 4,464 students enrolled and a 54% proficiency rate. Part of City of Chicago SD 299. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Taft High School is a high school located in Chicago, Illinois. The school serves 4,464 students in grades 7-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.6:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 54% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 74% graduation rate.
51% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Taft High School is part of the City of Chicago SD 299 in Illinois. The school receives Title I federal funding.
How This School Compares
Taft High School has 4,464 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in City of Chicago SD 299 (516 students). Its 54% proficiency rate is 16 percentage points above the district average of 39%. Compared to the Illinois state average of 48%, the school performs 6 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Taft High School has 4,464 students enrolled in grades 7-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.6:1.
According to EDFacts data, 54% of students at Taft High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Taft High School has a 74% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Taft High School is part of the City of Chicago SD 299 in Chicago, Illinois. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
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.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.