# Bowen High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993005072`
- **School name**: Bowen High School
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60617
- **Address**: 2710 E 89th St
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.73430, -87.55746
- **Phone**: (773)535-7650
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4950812 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowen_High_School_(Chicago)
- **Founded**: 1900

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 278
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: IL Report Card
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Intensive
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Intensive

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 32.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 59.3% (cohort of 59)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 92

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 44.6% (154 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 17.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 80.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 0.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 35.8% — 123 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 58 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 31 students
- **Autism**: 27 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 20 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $35,764
- **Federal share**: $6,114
- **State + local share**: $29,650
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,576,784
- **Federal share**: 17.4%
- **State share**: 29.9%
- **Local share**: 52.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,747,371

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $33,048
- **Poverty rate**: 40.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.6%
- **Unemployment**: 19.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $912
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 49.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.2 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 56
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.36 miles (CALUMET REGION AREA WIDE PLANNING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CHICAGO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.58361 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Mireles Elem Academy** — 0.3 mi away, 39.45% (this school: 44.64%)
- **Hoyne Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 20.35% (this school: 44.64%)
- **Great Lakes Academy Charter ES** — 0.6 mi away, 34.55% (this school: 44.64%)
- **Coles Elem Language Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 38.84% (this school: 44.64%)
- **Ninos Heroes Elem Academic Ctr** — 0.7 mi away, 42.47% (this school: 44.64%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bowen-high-school-chicago
- **Performance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bowen-high-school-chicago/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bowen-high-school-chicago/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bowen-high-school-chicago/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bowen-high-school-chicago/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bowen-high-school-chicago/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bowen-high-school-chicago/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bowen-high-school-chicago/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bowen-high-school-chicago/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bowen-high-school-chicago/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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