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Taft High School

6530 W Bryn Mawr Av, Chicago, IL, 60631-3199 -

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Definition of Terms

Taft High School

School Level

High school

School Type

Magnet School

Grades Offered

Grades 7 - 12

County

Cook County, IL

Students & Faculty

Total Students

2578 students

% Male / % Female

53% / 47%

Total Classroom Teachers

172 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 7 - 76 students

Grade 8 - 86 students

Grade 9 - 967 students

Grade 10 - 596 students

Grade 11 - 506 students

Grade 12 - 347 students

This School

(IL) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:15

1:16

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(IL) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	7%	2%
% Hispanic	31%	10%
% Black	5%	19%
% White	54%	66%
% Unknown	3 %	4%

Additional Student Information

This School

(IL) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

34%

22%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

18%

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(IL) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

City Of Chicago 299 School District

This School's Agency

(IL) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	633	3
Number of Students Managed	423,413 students	984 students
District Total Revenue	$4,135,342,000	$9,428,000
District Expenditure	$4,345,502,000	$9,311,000
District Revenue / Student	$9,767	$9,581
District Expenditure / Student	$10,263	$9,462
District Graduation Rates	47%	92%

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William Howard Taft High School is a high school located at 6530 West Bryn Mawr Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. It is run by the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). It is perhaps most famous as being the high school attended by Jim Jacobs, the writer of Grease , which he used as inspiration in writing the musical. Taft offers a gifted program from 7-12 grade in which International Bacculaureate is offered in High School. Taft also has a great NJROTC program. Joshua Bomba and Jonathan Rivera call the major sporting events at Taft for the independent radio station WJRK (910 AM)
William Howard Taft NJROTC
Tafts NJROTC unit is among the elite navy JROTC schools. The battalion has won the Distinguished Unit award nine concecutive years from 2001-2009. LCDR Paul Muffler USN (Ret.) is the senior NSI of the program and has led them to numerous city championships in Drill. There are two Naval Science instructors under Muffler, CMDCM Richard Kough and HMC Linda Fry. The battalion commander of Taft's NJROTC is CDR Tracey Soto.
Famous alumni
Jim Grabowski - college and professional football player
Robert Hanssen - former FBI agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union
Jim Jacobs - co-writer of the musical Grease
Jerry Krause - former Chicago Bulls general manager
Donna Mills - actress whose best known role was as Abby on the "Knots Landing" tv series
Lynn Morley Martin - legislator in Illinois and U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1991-1993
Robert Peroni - Distinguished Law Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Tulane University and Northwestern Law School
Terry Kath - late musician and founding member/lead guitarist of the band "Chicago"
External links
Official Website

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