# Douglass Academy High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993005789`
- **School name**: Douglass Academy High School
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60644
- **Address**: 543 N Waller Ave
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.89020, -87.76710
- **Phone**: (773)534-6176

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 29
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 12
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 2.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.1%

## 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

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 23

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 91.8% (45 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 6.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 92.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 100.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 32.0% — 16 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 15 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $93,787
- **Federal share**: $18,380
- **State + local share**: $75,407
### 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**: $21,049
- **Poverty rate**: 31.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.1%
- **Unemployment**: 23.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $829
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 35.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.6 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 183
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.78 miles (5534 W MONROE ST)

### 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**: 7.46167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ellington Elem School** — 0.3 mi away, 36.44% (this school: 91.84%)
- **Austin College and Career Acad HS** — 0.4 mi away, 64.71% (this school: 91.84%)
- **Howe Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 8.25% (this school: 91.84%)
- **Brunson Math & Sci Specialty Elem** — 0.5 mi away, 40.38% (this school: 91.84%)
- **Catalyst Charter-Circle Rock ES** — 0.5 mi away, 19.37% (this school: 91.84%)

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