# King College Prep High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993000931`
- **School name**: King College Prep High School
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60653
- **Address**: 4445 S Drexel Blvd
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.81390, -87.60290
- **Phone**: (773)535-1180
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6411346 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_College_Prep
- **Founded**: 1971

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 819
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 49
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 50.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 87.6% (cohort of 105)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 205

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 24.5% (104 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 2.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 95.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.2% — 43 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,381
- **Federal share**: $3,088
- **State + local share**: $19,293
### 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**: $35,266
- **Poverty rate**: 42.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.0%
- **Unemployment**: 21.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $759
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 51.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.9 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 92
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.44 miles (BRONZEVILLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT)

### 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**: 7.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Univ of Chicago Chtr-Nth Kenwood** — 0.3 mi away, 22.53% (this school: 24.47%)
- **Murray Elem Language Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 21.9% (this school: 24.47%)
- **Bronzeville Classical Elem Sch** — 1.3 mi away, 2.99% (this school: 24.47%)
- **Ray Elem School** — 1.6 mi away, 20.47% (this school: 24.47%)
- **Bret Harte Elem School** — 1.6 mi away, 19.38% (this school: 24.47%)

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