# Dunbar Vocational Career Acad HS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993000588`
- **School name**: Dunbar Vocational Career Acad HS
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60616
- **Address**: 3000 S King Dr
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.83960, -87.61870
- **Phone**: (773)534-9000
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5314164 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar_Vocational_High_School
- **Founded**: 1942

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 355
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.9%

## 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**: 72.4% (cohort of 98)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 101

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 80.3% (322 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 3.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 96.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 24.3% — 97 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 83 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $26,834
- **Federal share**: $4,619
- **State + local share**: $22,215
### 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**: $39,133
- **Poverty rate**: 23.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 48.8%
- **Unemployment**: 13.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,128
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.8 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 155
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.81 miles (24TH AND FEDERAL)

### 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**: 6.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Pershing Elem Humanities Magnet** — 0.3 mi away, 33.21% (this school: 80.3%)
- **Drake Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 41.73% (this school: 80.3%)
- **Chicago Military Academy HS** — 0.6 mi away, 45% (this school: 80.3%)
- **Urban Prep Chtr  Bronzeville HS** — 0.7 mi away, 33.83% (this school: 80.3%)
- **James R Doolittle Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 35.32% (this school: 80.3%)

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