📍 6620 S Dr Martin L King Jr Dr, Chicago, Cook County, 60637
YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad is a State/Public serving high age pupils, located in Chicago, Cook County. The school has 131 pupils enrolled. The Principal is Dione Kirksey. It is part of the City of Chicago SD 299 school district. It serves grades 9–12 in an urban setting. The school employs 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 43.7:1. It operates as a public charter school. 10% of students are proficient in reading. 10% are proficient in maths. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi, devices for students.
YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad enrolls 131 students across grades 9–12. The student body is 37% male and 63% female. A teaching staff of 3 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 43.7:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 97% Black or African American and 3.1% Hispanic or Latino.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Black or African American | 127 | 97% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 4 | 3.1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
126 of the school's 131 students (96%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad is located in an urban setting (NCES locale: City, Large). It operates as a public charter school. The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district IL-10, state senate district 3, state house district 5.
YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad is one of 644 schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, based in Chicago, Illinois. The district serves 324,130 students district-wide and employs 22,932 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 131 students, YCCS-Progressive Leadership Acad is smaller than the district average of about 503 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: City - Large
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