Orr Academy High School
Chicago · IL · Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 · Public
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Noble St Chtr-Rowe-Clark MS Acad → Raby High School → Legal Prep Academy Charter HS → Excel Safe Academy West → Westinghouse High School → YCCS-Association House → Ucan Academy → Providence St. Mel School →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 37% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 51th percentile by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Orr Academy High School compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ 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: Noble St Chtr-Rowe-Clark MS Acad, Raby High School, Legal Prep Academy Charter HS and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2151th percentile 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.
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.
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 -2.3%/year, projecting from 2024's 361 students:
≈ 40 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $21,813 per student in district revenue, the 40 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $872,520/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noble St Chtr-Rowe-Clark MS Acad Chicago |
Public · charter | 0.4 | 320 | -15.8% |
| Raby High School Chicago |
Public | 0.8 | 128 | -21.5% |
| Legal Prep Academy Charter HS Chicago |
Public · charter | 0.9 | 210 | -17.6% |
| Excel Safe Academy West Chicago |
Public | 1.0 | — | — |
| Westinghouse High School Chicago |
Public | 1.0 | 1,230 | +7.3% |
| YCCS-Association House Chicago |
Public · charter | 1.1 | 105 | +7.1% |
| Ucan Academy Chicago |
Private | 1.2 | 55 | -36.0% |
| Providence St. Mel School Chicago |
Private | 1.2 | 273 | -26.2% |