# Curie Metropolitan High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993001198`
- **School name**: Curie Metropolitan High School
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60632
- **Address**: 4959 S Archer Ave
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.80190, -87.72220
- **Phone**: (773)535-2100
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5194746 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_Metropolitan_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 3,099
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 197
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 68.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 76.4% (cohort of 741)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1,175

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 55.5% (1,762 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 83.8%
- **Black/African American**: 2.0%
- **Asian**: 11.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.6% — 369 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 221 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 35 students
- **Autism**: 26 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,553
- **Federal share**: $2,980
- **State + local share**: $13,573
### 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**: $72,263
- **Poverty rate**: 10.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,034
- **Foreign-born residents**: 60.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.4 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 19
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 262
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.66 miles (UNO GAGE SOCCER ACADEMY)

### 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**: 7.10667 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Edwards Elem School** — 0.3 mi away, 19.82% (this school: 55.5%)
- **Acero Chtr Sch Netwrk- Victoria** — 0.6 mi away, 40.66% (this school: 55.5%)
- **Acero Chtr - SPC Zizumbo Elem** — 0.6 mi away, 21.4% (this school: 55.5%)
- **Acero Chtr Netrk -  Major Garcia** — 0.6 mi away, 52.11% (this school: 55.5%)
- **Acero Chtr Network - PFC Torress** — 0.6 mi away, 12% (this school: 55.5%)

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