Hales Franciscan High School

CTL-E-1246 · School · high-school · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Black Catholic college-preparatory high school in Bronzeville (1962-2019): the only historically African American, all-male Catholic college-prep school in Illinois. Financial dependence on enrollment/tuition was a structural vulnerability; campus acquired in 2023 by It Takes A Village Family of Schools.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from INST-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-INST-001:INST-038; source research type(s): school. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

S-codes S18,S46 (see working/track-b/sources.md)
S-codes S47 (see working/track-b/sources.md)
S-codes S46,S18 (see working/track-b/sources.md)
S-codes S19 (see working/track-b/sources.md)
S-codes S46 (see working/track-b/sources.md)

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