# Taft High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993001153`
- **School name**: Taft High School
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60631
- **Address**: 6530 W Bryn Mawr Ave
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.98470, -87.79140
- **Phone**: (773)534-1000
- **Wikidata QID**: Q8012582 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft_High_School_(Chicago)

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 4,487
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 275
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 50.6%

## 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**: 84.4% (cohort of 1,129)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1,301

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 44.6% (1,855 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 41.6%
- **Black/African American**: 7.4%
- **Asian**: 2.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 44.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 2.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 54.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.1% — 544 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 302 students
- **Autism**: 58 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 43 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 43 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 6 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,258
- **Federal share**: $2,098
- **State + local share**: $13,160
### 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**: $74,250
- **Poverty rate**: 11.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 44.5%
- **Unemployment**: 0.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,040
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 20.7 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 159
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.57 miles (4759 N LAWRENCE)

### 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**: 7.2087 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Garvy  J Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 6.75% (this school: 44.57%)
- **Hitch Elem School** — 0.7 mi away, 7.52% (this school: 44.57%)
- **Onahan Elem School** — 0.7 mi away, 6.88% (this school: 44.57%)
- **Norwood Park Elem School** — 0.7 mi away, 5.76% (this school: 44.57%)
- **Beard Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 38.55% (this school: 44.57%)

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