# Tilden Career Communty Academy HS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993001161`
- **School name**: Tilden Career Communty Academy HS
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60609
- **Address**: 4747 S Union Ave
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.80750, -87.64250
- **Phone**: (773)535-1625
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7802094 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilden_High_School_(Chicago)
- **Founded**: 1889

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 288
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 32.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 51.2% (cohort of 84)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 79

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 57.0% (172 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 47.8%
- **Black/African American**: 2.5%
- **Asian**: 39.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 9.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 32.0% — 97 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 59 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 35 students
- **Autism**: 20 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 11 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,228
- **Federal share**: $5,528
- **State + local share**: $25,701
### 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**: $57,885
- **Poverty rate**: 15.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.8%
- **Unemployment**: 13.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $867
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.2 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 14
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 151
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.78 miles (4802 S THROOP ST)

### 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**: 5.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Graham  A Elem School** — 0.4 mi away, 38.93% (this school: 56.95%)
- **Sherman Elem School** — 0.7 mi away, 39.76% (this school: 56.95%)
- **Hendricks Elem Community Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 56.68% (this school: 56.95%)
- **Beethoven Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 50% (this school: 56.95%)
- **Dewey Elem Academy of Fine Arts** — 0.8 mi away, 38.57% (this school: 56.95%)

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