High · Illinois
Richards Career Academy HS
Free meals for allRichards Career Academy HS, a public high school in Chicago, Illinois: grades 9–12, 348 students, 11.2 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 348
- Teachers (FTE)
- 31.0
- Students per teacher
- 11.2
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 74% of high schools in Illinois
Median 13.5 · 694 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 74% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 58% of high schools in Illinois
Median 431 · 708 schools compared
Smaller than 55% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Location
- Address
- 5009 S Laflin St, Chicago, IL 60609
- Phone
- (773)535-4945
- City or town
- Chicago
- County
- Cook County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Peace and Education Coalition HSAlternativeFree meals for all | 10–12 | 0 | — |
Back of The Yards IB HSFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,039 | 12.7 |
Tilden Career Communty Academy HSFree meals for all | 9–12 | 288 | 10.7 |
Lindblom Math & Science Acad HSFree meals for all | 7–12 | 1,316 | 15.4 |
Gage Park High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 392 | 12.1 |
Ombudsman Chicago SouthAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 0 | — |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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