YCCS Chtr - Chatham
Chicago · IL · Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 · Public charter
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YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS → YCCS-Olive Harvey Mid College HS → YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad → Urban Prep Chtr Acad Englewood HS → Bronzeville Scholastic HS → ACE Amandla Charter School → Williams Medical Prep High Sch → Hirsch Metropolitan High School →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 18% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 7% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How YCCS Chtr - Chatham compares for families
What families should know about YCCS Chtr - Chatham.
- ▸ 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-Community Youth Dev Inst HS, YCCS-Olive Harvey Mid College HS, YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 7% 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. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -10.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 104 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
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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-Community Youth Dev Inst HS Chicago |
Public · charter | 2.4 | 94 | -10.5% |
| YCCS-Olive Harvey Mid College HS Chicago |
Public · charter | 1.6 | 128 | +21.9% |
| YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad Chicago |
Public · charter | 3.1 | 122 | -19.7% |
| Urban Prep Chtr Acad Englewood HS Chicago |
Public · charter | 3.9 | 87 | -54.0% |
| Bronzeville Scholastic HS Chicago |
Public | 5.2 | 119 | — |
| ACE Amandla Charter School Chicago |
Public · charter | 5.1 | 137 | +8.7% |
| Williams Medical Prep High Sch Chicago |
Public | 5.2 | 74 | +17.5% |
| Hirsch Metropolitan High School Chicago |
Public | 1.7 | 183 | -27.4% |