# Payton College Preparatory HS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993003989`
- **School name**: Payton College Preparatory HS
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60610
- **Address**: 1034 N Wells St
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.90170, -87.63520
- **Phone**: (773)534-0034
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7965805 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Payton_College_Preparatory_High_School
- **Founded**: 2000

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,260
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 86
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 33.3%

## 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**: 95.3% (cohort of 299)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 575

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 25.1% (299 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 21.6%
- **Black/African American**: 19.1%
- **Asian**: 10.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 44.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 4.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 33.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.3% — 63 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,820
- **Federal share**: $2,109
- **State + local share**: $14,710
### 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**: $104,968
- **Poverty rate**: 15.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 76.9%
- **Unemployment**: 6.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,289
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.2 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 16
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 162
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.98 miles (951 W HURON)

### 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**: 8.75889 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Franklin Elem Fine Arts Center** — 0.3 mi away, 11.29% (this school: 25.1%)
- **Ogden Elem School** — 0.3 mi away, 24.07% (this school: 25.1%)
- **Skinner North Elem Sch** — 0.5 mi away, 1.57% (this school: 25.1%)
- **Skinner Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 7.93% (this school: 25.1%)
- **LaSalle Elem Language Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 5.13% (this school: 25.1%)

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