# Thomas Kelly College Preparatory

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993000920`
- **School name**: Thomas Kelly College Preparatory
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60632
- **Address**: 4136 S California Ave
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.81818, -87.69484
- **Phone**: (773)535-4900
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7791471 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_High_School_(Chicago)
- **Founded**: 1928

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,762
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 123
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.9%

## 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**: 72.1% (cohort of 481)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 751

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 46.9% (930 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 77.7%
- **Black/African American**: 15.3%
- **Asian**: 4.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.7% — 370 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 279 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 54 students
- **Autism**: 28 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,819
- **Federal share**: $3,479
- **State + local share**: $15,340
### 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**: $52,757
- **Poverty rate**: 9.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.8%
- **Unemployment**: 11.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,026
- **Foreign-born residents**: 44.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.3 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 22
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 250
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.04 miles (WEST 48TH AND OAKLEY)

### 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**: 4.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Shields Elem School** — 0.3 mi away, 27.72% (this school: 46.92%)
- **Acero Chtr-Brighton Park Elem Sch** — 0.3 mi away, 33.63% (this school: 46.92%)
- **Acero Chtr - Sandra Cisneros Elem** — 0.3 mi away, 20.77% (this school: 46.92%)
- **Davis N Elem School** — 0.4 mi away, 19.38% (this school: 46.92%)
- **Brighton Park Elem School** — 0.4 mi away, 37.2% (this school: 46.92%)

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