City of Chicago

Public Schools Middle School Attendance Boundaries

Geographic attendance boundaries are included for the 22 middle schools in the Chicago Public Schools district that have them for the 2024-2025 school year. Each record includes the school's unique identifier, name, and the polygonal shape of its designated attendance area.

Example records
School NamebrandSchool IDregistrationSchool YeartemporalGrades ServedclassificationCommunity AreageographicGeometry Typegeospatial
Alcott College Prep6105132024-20256-8Lincoln SquarePolygon
Chalmers Elementary School of Excellence6102652024-20256-8AustinPolygon
Robeson High School6097282024-20256-8EnglewoodPolygon
Use cases

Retail Site Selection Near School Zones

A retail chain evaluating locations for after-school-focused stores, such as tutoring centers or youth apparel, overlays middle school attendance boundaries against candidate storefronts to estimate the density of households with school-age children within each catchment area before committing to a lease.

School NameCommunity AreaGrades ServedGeometry Type

Residential Insurance Territory Calibration

A property insurer refining neighborhood-level risk tiers uses school attendance boundaries as a proxy for stable residential micro-zones, cross-referencing community area designations with claims history to test whether boundary-defined areas correlate with loss ratios more precisely than ZIP codes alone.

Community AreaSchool IDSchool YearGeometry Type

EdTech Market Sizing by Catchment Area

An EdTech company selling supplemental learning tools to families estimates its addressable market in Chicago by counting the number of distinct middle school attendance zones, identifying which community areas they cover, and prioritizing outreach to zones with the highest estimated household density.

School NameSchool IDCommunity AreaGrades Served
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