Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is a large public school district consisting of primary and secondary schools within the city limits of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois.
Schools
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High schools
There are several types of high schools in the district, including neighborhood, career academy, charter, contract, magnet, military academy, selective enrollment, small and special education.
Career & Technical Education (CTE)
- Louisa May Alcott College Preparatory High School
- Al Raby School for Community and Environment
- Amundsen High School
- Austin Community Academy High School
- Bogan High School
- Bowen High School
- Chicago Vocational Career Academy
- Roberto Clemente Community Academy
- Collins Academy High School
- Curie Metropolitan High School
- Dunbar Vocational Career Academy
- Dyett High School for the Arts
- Farragut Career Academy
- Fenger Academy High School
- Foreman High School
- Foundations college prep
- Gage Park High School
- George Westinghouse College Prep
- Hancock High School
- Harlan Community Academy High School
- Harper High School
- Hirsch Metropolitan High School
- Hyde Park Academy High School
- Jones College Prep High School
- Benito Juarez Community Academy
- Julian High School
- Thomas Kelly High School
- Manley Career Academy High School
- John Marshall Metropolitan High School
- Wendell Phillips Academy High School
- Prosser Career Academy
- Richards Career Academy
- Roosevelt High School
- Carl Schurz High School
- Simeon Career Academy
- Stephen Tyng Mather High School
- South Shore International College Preparatory High School
- Roger C. Sullivan High School
- Uplift Community High School
- George Washington High School
- Wells Community Academy High School
- Daniel Hale Williams Preparatory School of Medicine
Charter
- Chicago Collegiate Charter School
- Chicago Math and Science Academy Charter School
- Chicago Virtual Charter School
- CICS
- CICS ChicagoQuest North
- CICS Ralph Ellison
- CICS Longwood
- CICS Northtown Academy
- EPIC Academy Charter School
- Foundations College Preparatory Charter School
- Institutio
- Institutio Health Sciences Career Academy
- Institutio - Justice Lozano
- Intrinsic Charter School
- Noble Network of Charter Schools
- Perspectives Charter Schools
- West Town Academy
- Youth Connection Charter School
- Young Women's Leadership Charter School
Citywide
- Chicago Academy High School
- Collins Academy High School
- Douglass Academy High School
- Goodie STEM Academy
Contract
- Chicago Excel Academy
- Chicago High School for the Arts
- Chicago Technology Academy
- Community Services West Career Academy
District
- DeVry University Advantage Academy
- Jefferson Alternative High School
International Baccalaureate (IB)
- Amundsen High School
- Back of the Yards College Preparatory High School
- Benito Juarez Community Academy
- Bogan High School
- Bronzeville Scholastic Institute
- Carl Schurz High School
- Curie Metropolitan High School
- Farragut Career Academy
- George Washington High School
- Hubbard High School
- Hyde Park Academy High School
- Kennedy High School
- Lincoln Park High School
- Morgan Park High School
- Ogden International High School
- Prosser Career Academy
- Roberto Clemente Community Academy
- Senn High School
- South Shore International College Preparatory High School
- Steinmetz College Prep
- Thomas Kelly High School
- Taft High School
Magnet
- Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences
- Clark Academic Prep Magnet High School
- Crane Medical Preparatory High School
- Curie Metropolitan High School
- DeVry University Advantage Academy - Grades 11-12, with college credit
- Disney II Magnet High School
- Harlan Community Academy High School (Engineering Program)
- Michele Clark Magnet High School
- Senn High School (Fine and Performing Arts Program)
- Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center
Military academies
- Air Force Academy High School
- Carver Military Academy
- Chicago Military Academy
- Marine Leadership Academy at Ames
- Phoenix Military Academy
- Rickover Naval Academy
Neighborhood
- Corliss High School
- Dyett Academic Center
- Gage Park High School
- Harlan Community Academy High School
- Hirsch Metropolitan High School
- Infinity Math Science & Technology High School
- John Hope College Preparatory High School
- Hubbard High School
- Kelvyn Park High School
- Kenwood Academy
- Lake View High School
- North Grand High School
- Orr Academy High School
- Paul Robeson High School
- Tilden High School*
- George Washington High School
Selective enrollment
- George Westinghouse College Prep
- Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy
- John Hancock College Preparatory High School
- Jones College Prep High School
- King College Prep
- Lane Technical College Prep High School
- Northside College Preparatory High School
- Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy
- South Shore International College Preparatory High School
- Walter Payton College Prep
- Whitney M. Young Magnet High School
Small
- Collins Academy High School
- TEAM Englewood Community Academy
Special education
- Northside Learning Center High School
- Ray Graham Training Center
- Southside Occupational High School
- Vaughn Occupational High School
Citywide-option
- Simpson Academy for Young Women
- York Alternative High School
Elementary/middle schools
Zoned K-8
Zoned K-8 A
- Abbott School website
- Agassiz School website
- Jane Addams School website
- Louisa May Alcott School website
Zoned K-8 B
- Alexander Graham Bell School
- Beaubien School website
- Beidler
- Brentano School website
- Clara Barton School website
- Myra Bradwell School website
Zoned K-8 C
- Canty
- Carroll/Rosenwald Specialty School School website
- George F. Cassell Elementary School
- Daniel R. Cameron
- DeWitt Clinton School
Zoned K-8 D
- Darwin Elementary School School website
- Arthur Dixon Elementary School
- Everett McKinley Dirksen School website
- John C. Dore Elementary School School website
Zoned K-8 E
- Christian Ebinger, Sr. School website
- John F. Eberhart School website
Zoned K-8 G
- Frank L. Gillespie School website
- Goethe School website
- Virgil Grissom School website
Zoned K-8 H
- Charles G. Hammond School website
- Helen M. Hefferan School website
- John Hay School website
- Lionel Hampton Fine & Performing Arts School
- Robert Healy School website
Zoned K-8 J
- Jenner
Zoned K-8 L
- Abraham Lincoln School website
- Carl von Linné School website
Zoned K-8 M
- Arnold Mireles School website
- George Manierre School website
- Oscar Mayer School website
Zoned K-8 N
- Louis Nettelhorst School website
- Walter L Newberry Math & Science Academy School website
Zoned K-8 O
- William B. Ogden
Zoned K-8 P
- Brian Piccolo (formerly Rezin Orr) School website
- Ernst Prussing School website
- Mary G Peterson Elementary School
- Pritzker School
Zoned K-8 R
- Irma C. Ruiz School website
- Ravenswood School website
Zoned K-8 S
- Mark T. Skinner School website
- South Loop School website
- Washington D. Smyser Elementary School School website
Elementary/middle schools by type
Chicago Public Schools offers a wide variety of choices for elementary school students, including neighborhood, academic centers, charter, classical, contract, international gifted program, magnet, regional gifted center, small and special education.
Academic centers
Academic centers are housed in high schools and provide a college preparatory program for academically gifted and talented seventh and eighth grade students. There are seven academic centers:
Classical schools
The instructional program in classical schools is accelerated and highly structured for strong academic achievement in literature, mathematics, language arts, world language, and the humanities. There are seven classical schools:
International gifted program
- Lincoln
Magnet schools
Regional gifted centers
There are eleven regional gifted centers:
Special schools
- Moses Montefiore Academy (7-9)
Defunct schools
Former high schools
- Academy of Communications and Technology Charter School - closed in 2010, the school building at 4319 W. Washington Blvd. was built in 1906 as St. Mel Catholic grade school
- Calumet High School (1919â€"2006) - made way for the Perspectives Charter School, which currently occupies the building
- Carter Harrison Technical High School (1912â€"1983) - now houses the Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy
- Cecil Partee Academic Preparatory Center - occupied the old Hookway Elementary School
- Chicago High School (1856â€"1880) - renamed Central High School in 1878, closed in 1880; building demolished in 1950 to make way for the Kennedy Expressway
- Chicago Talent Development High School (2009â€"2014)
- Collins High School - the building at 1313 South Sacramento Drive (inside Douglas Park) now houses both the Collins Academy High School and the North Lawndale College Prep High School
- Cooley Vocational High School (1958â€"1979) - subject of the film Cooley High; the school, located on the 800 block of West Scott Street, closed in 1979 when it was replaced by a newer high school nearby and was eventually razed; the area around the former school was zoned to nearby Lincoln Park High School
- Cregier Vocational High School - closed at the end of the 1994-1995 school year
- DuSable High School
- Englewood Technical Prep Academy (1873â€"2008) - closed due to poor performance; now houses TEAM Englewood Community Academy and Urban Prep Charter Academy
- English High and Manual Training School - renamed to Crane High School in 1905
- Forrestville High School - renamed to King College Prep High School in 1971
- Harvard High School (1865â€"1962) - closed in 1962 due to declining enrollment; last used by St. George's School before the building was converted into condominiums and a family home
- Hibbard High School - closed in 1927 when the nearby Roosevelt High School was completed and students were sent there; remains in operation as an elementary school
- Jefferson High School - closed in 1910 when the nearby Schurz High School was completed and students were sent there; the school was eventually razed and the Irish American Heritage Center was built on the site
- Kinzie High School - renamed to Kennedy High School in 1965
- Lake High School - renamed to Tilden Technical High School (now the Tilden Career Community Academy) in 1915
- Las Casas Occupational High School (closed 2011)
- Lewis Institute High School - closed in 1917; merged with Armour Institute of Technology in 1940 to form the present-day Illinois Institute of Technology
- Loretto High School (Englewood) - closed in 1962 due to declining enrollment; the fate of the building is unknown
- Lucy Flower Vocational High School (1911â€"2003) - named after Lucy Flower; present site of Al Raby School for Community and Environment
- Manual High School - renamed to University High School in 1904
- Medill High School - 1300 block of W. 14th place. First built in the 1890s, buildings on that site housed various grade levels. The high school closed in 1948.
- Metropolitan High School - closed during the 1990s; the school's status, located on 160 block of West Wendell, is unknown
- Near North Career Metro High School - closed in 2001; the building still stands today but its use is unknown
- North Park University High School - closed in 1969 due to declining enrollment and rising costs; now serves as an administration building for an adjacent college
- Parker High School - opened in 1901; closed in 1977 and reopened as Paul Robeson High School
- Pullman Technical High School - closed in 1950 due to budget constraints; continued to operate as a private school until 1997 when it was converted to the Brooks College Preparatory Academy
- South Division High School - closed in 1905 and reopened as Wendell Phillips Academy High School
- South Shore High School
- Spalding (1908â€"2004) - K through 12 school at 1628 W. Washington; building reopened as Hope Institute Learning Academy, a private school with a CPS contract emphasizing services for special-needs children
- Tuley/Northwest Division High School - closed in 1974 to make way for the new Roberto Clemente Community Academy
- Waller/North Division High School - renamed to Lincoln Park High School in 1979
- Washburne Trade School - closed in 1993; reopened in 1994 as part of the City Colleges of Chicago before closing again in 1996. The culinary trade program continues as Washburne Culinary Institute of Kennedy-King College. Washburne school building at 3233 W. 31st St., built in 1910 as the Liquid Carbonic Co. factory and housing the school from 1958 until closing, was considered for landmark status as a Prairie School industrial building but suffered a fire in Feb. 2007 and was demolished by 2009. Converted to a vocational training school in 1919, Washburne was home to Chicago trade union apprentice programs; students earned a high school diploma at the same time.
- (West Division) McKinley High School - closed 1954, now the site of Chicago Bulls College Prep
- Westcott Vocational High School - renamed to Simeon Career Academy in 1964
- Westinghouse Career Academy High School - closed in 2009 to make way for the new George Westinghouse College Prep (now selective enrollment) on the 3300 block of West Franklin Blvd.
Former elementary schools
- Amelia Dunne Hookway School - closed in 1981 due to underenrollment. A transitional high school for ninth graders, Cecil Partee Academic Preparatory Center was later housed in that same building. Partee was later relocated to Chicago Vocational Career Academy. In 1988, Lenart Regional Gifted Center opened a selective admissions elementary school in that site.
- Jefferson Elementary School
- Katherine Lee Bates - opened in 1960 and closed in 1979; in 1981 Tabernacle Christian Academy moved into that same building at 1203 W. 109th Place, and is currently in operation
- R.S. Abbott Elementary School - located on 3630 S. Wells; opened in 1881 and closed in 2008; the building currently houses Air Force Academy High School
- Richard Wright Elementary School - opened in 1971 and closed in 2004 due to fire
- Jacob Riis Elementary School - demolished in 2008.
- Spry Elementary School - building was converted into the Spry Community School
- Stockton Elementary School- renamed Courtenay Language Arts Center in 2013
See also
- Chicago Public Schools
- List of high schools in Illinois
- List of school districts in Illinois
References
External links
- Official website of the Chicago Public Schools
- CPS - About Our Schools
