Manley Career Academy High School
Chicago · IL · Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 · Public
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YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican → Legal Prep Academy Charter HS → Austin College and Career Acad HS → Collins Academy STEAM High School → Marshall Metropolitan High School → North Lawndale Prep Chtr - Christ → North Lawndale Prep Chtr-Collins → Crane Medical Prep HS →At a glance
- AP rigor: Bottom 25% of US high schools
- SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 28% by test-taker volume
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How Manley Career Academy High School compares for families
What families should know about Manley Career Academy High School.
- ▸ LocallyIL sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican, Legal Prep Academy Charter HS, Austin College and Career Acad HS and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 28% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Your state's public flagship
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $14,355/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2021 total enrollment.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +1.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 193 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YCCS-Albizu Campos Puerto Rican Chicago |
Public · charter | 2.2 | 184 | +37.3% |
| Legal Prep Academy Charter HS Chicago |
Public · charter | 1.9 | 210 | -17.6% |
| Austin College and Career Acad HS Chicago |
Public | 3.4 | 190 | -23.4% |
| Collins Academy STEAM High School Chicago |
Public | 0.4 | 228 | -8.8% |
| Marshall Metropolitan High School Chicago |
Public | 0.7 | 239 | -15.2% |
| North Lawndale Prep Chtr - Christ Chicago |
Public · charter | 1.0 | 258 | -22.5% |
| North Lawndale Prep Chtr-Collins Chicago |
Public · charter | 0.4 | 276 | -41.3% |
| Crane Medical Prep HS Chicago |
Public | 1.0 | 295 | -26.1% |
At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantManley Career Academy High School is a public high school in Chicago, IL, enrolling 193 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
Enrollment is down 14% from 2021 to 2024.
25 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 28% of U.S. high schools.
It has about 96 students per school counselor.
40% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named.
Questions families ask
How many students attend Manley Career Academy High School? Manley Career Academy High School is a public high school in Chicago, IL, enrolling 193 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
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