Demographics
Our Lady of Tepeyac High School provides educational opportunities exclusively for female students in the Chicago area. As of 2012, there are 143 students attending the school, with 80.4 percent Latina, 16.1 percent African American, 2.8 percent multiracial, and .7 percent Caucasian. Eighty-six percent of the students families fall below the poverty line.
Our Lady of Tepeyac High School is an integral part of the Little Village community. Once home to Eastern European immigrants, Little Village is now considered one of the largest Mexican American communities in the country. The two public high schools in the neighborhood average a 45 percent graduation rate, while Our Lady of Tepeyac graduates 95 percent of our students. For the past three years, 100 percent of our graduates have enrolled in college.
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