YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS

Chicago · IL · Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 · Public charter


At a glance

Academic signals
  • AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools
  • SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 31% by test-taker volume

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS compares for families

What families should know about YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS.

  • ▸ 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: Urban Prep Chtr Acad Englewood HS, YCCS Chtr - Chatham, 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 · 2020-21

Bottom 31% by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
29
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
30.9
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

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

% inexperienced teachers (1st-2nd yr)
0%
Strong: experienced corps. New teachers rotate through but most have ≥3 years in.
% chronic teacher absence (≥10 days/yr)
0.0%
Strong attendance culture among teachers.

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

89.4%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

≥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

44%
admit rate
$16,004
in-state tuition/yr · $35,124 out-of-state
1270–1510
SAT 25–75 · ACT 29–34

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.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Chronic absenteeism

Share of students absent 15+ days
86.9%
Well above the national average (~16%). At this level, chronic absence becomes a leading driver of enrollment loss as families rotate to other schools.
Students absent 15+ days
93
Federal definition: absent (excused or unexcused) for at least 15 of ~180 school days — about 10% of the school year.

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.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -3.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 94 students:

2025
91
2027
84
2029
78

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.

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.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Urban Prep Chtr Acad Englewood HS
Chicago
Public · charter 2.1 87 -54.0%
YCCS Chtr - Chatham
Chicago
Public · charter 2.4 104 -25.7%
YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad
Chicago
Public · charter 2.1 122 -19.7%
Bronzeville Scholastic HS
Chicago
Public 3.8 119 —
Williams Medical Prep High Sch
Chicago
Public 3.8 74 +17.5%
YCCS-Olive Harvey Mid College HS
Chicago
Public · charter 3.9 128 +21.9%
ACE Amandla Charter School
Chicago
Public · charter 2.8 137 +8.7%
Hirsch Metropolitan High School
Chicago
Public 2.1 183 -27.4%

At a glance

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YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS is a public high school in Chicago, IL, enrolling 94 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.

29 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 31% of U.S. high schools.

87% 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.

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How many students attend YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS? YCCS-Community Youth Dev Inst HS is a public high school in Chicago, IL, enrolling 94 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.

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