# Chicago schools fail food inspections more often than restaurants

Published 2026-11-07 · By Pushbuild · Data: [Restaurant Inspections API – Health Scores, Grades and Violations](https://pushbuild.com/apis/restaurant-inspections.html)

**Since 2024, 23.8% of Chicago school kitchen inspections ended in "Fail", against 17.6% for restaurants.** Long-term care facilities (22.7%) also fail more often than restaurants.

| Facility type | Inspections | Fail rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| School | 3,182 | 23.8% |
| Mobile Food Preparer | 392 | 23.2% |
| Long Term Care | 476 | 22.7% |
| Grocery Store | 4,872 | 18.8% |
| Bakery | 726 | 18.7% |
| Restaurant | 37,085 | 17.6% |
| Daycare Above and Under 2 Years | 720 | 17.2% |
| Children's Services Facility | 1,837 | 15.3% |

## Caveats

Chicago Department of Public Health inspections, Jan 2024 to Nov 2026; types with 300+ inspections.

## Sources

- Restaurant Inspections API – Health Scores, Grades and Violations: the primary sources are listed on the [API page](https://pushbuild.com/apis/restaurant-inspections.html), read on 2026-11-07

Data as of 2026-11-07. Every figure in this post is in the table above and the CSV below.

Download the data behind this post: [b1-chicago-fail-rate-by-facility-type-2024-26.csv](https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/data/b1-chicago-fail-rate-by-facility-type-2024-26.csv)

## Get this data

Every number in this post comes from the [Restaurant Inspections API – Health Scores, Grades and Violations](https://pushbuild.com/apis/restaurant-inspections.html). $0.0008 per row returned; every key gets $1 of free usage each month.

```
curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/restaurant-inspections/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jurisdictions": ["nyc"], "name": "pizza", "maxItems": 20}'
```

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As of 2026-11-07. Source: https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/chicago-food-inspection-fail-rates/