Overview

Kenwood Academy High School is a public high school in the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, part of Chicago Public Schools -- one of the largest school districts in the United States. It serves grades 7-12.

Academics

No independently verified Illinois state assessment data (via the Illinois Report Card) was located for this profile; check the Illinois State Board of Education's site directly for current school-level results.

Neighborhood

Hyde Park is a South Side Chicago neighborhood best known as home to the University of Chicago, with a population of roughly 21,740 and a median household income around $65,000.

Crime & safety

Unlike several other big-city neighborhoods profiled in this directory, sources on Hyde Park are unusually consistent: multiple independent providers describe it as roughly average-to-modestly-elevated relative to national and citywide benchmarks -- a 44% above-national overall crime index with a C safety grade, a 45th percentile ranking for violent crime specifically (close to average), and a description as "safer than 20% of Chicago neighborhoods" (meaning most other Chicago neighborhoods are safer, not that Hyde Park itself is especially dangerous in absolute terms). One source notes crime trending down roughly 16% over the period it analyzed.

"Safer than 20% of Chicago neighborhoods" sounds alarming out of context, but it means Hyde Park ranks in the bottom fifth of Chicago's roughly 77-97 neighborhoods by relative safety -- not that 80% of the neighborhood itself is dangerous. We're spelling this out because percentile framing is one of the easiest crime statistics to misread, and we'd rather over-explain it than let a headline number mislead.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score. Based on the 1 of 3 possible components we could source for this school (safety, unusually consistent across sources here), we're not showing a partial numeric rating -- 1 of 3 remains below our threshold. See our ratings methodology.

Sources

  1. NCES Common Core of Data, School Search -- Kenwood Academy High School, 2024-25 school year.
  2. CrimeGrade.org, Hyde Park overall, violent, and property crime analyses, 2025-2026.
  3. DoorProfit.com, Hyde Park crime statistics, citing FBI UCR data, 2026.
  4. Safemap.io, Hyde Park safety report, 2026.
  5. Niche.com, Hyde Park crime and safety, resident survey data.