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AUSL (Academy for Urban School Leadership) is a Chicago nonprofit school management organization founded in 2001. Today, it manages 31 Chicago Public Schools serving more than 16,000 students. Over 1,045 teachers have graduated from the AUSL Chicago Teacher Residency.
Metropolitan High School - closed during the 1990s; the building, located on 160 block of West Wendell, now houses the Ruben Salazar Bilingual Educational Center, a CPS K-8 school. Near North Career Metro High School - closed in 2001; the building is currently used as a training facility for the Chicago Police Department and Chicago Fire ...
An August 27, 2015 article by the Chicago Tribune refers to the Archdiocese of Chicago Office of Catholic Schools as the largest private school system in the United States. [ 1 ] A wave of school closures after the 2014-2015 school year caused over 200 employees to change jobs and over 1,200 pupils to change schools.
The drop-out rate was 8.5% after the 1983–1984 school year. By April 1985, Near North had an enrollment of 1,073 students, 899 African-Americans, 78 Whites and 65 Hispanics. The school was renamed to Near North Career Metropolitan High School during the 1986–1987 school year. [14]
The high school traces its history to 1875, when South Division High School was opened as the south side's first public high school. Phillips was established by Chicago Board of Education in 1900 to replace South Division, (which was located near 26th street and Wabash Avenue, about two miles from Phillips location) after community members petitioned for a new school due to the location being ...
The Chicago Board of Education named the school after Admiral David Farragut and appointed George R. Plumb as principal. On the first day of school, Farragut enrolled about 500 students in grades 1–4. [7] Those 500 students were among 175,000 students enrolled in Chicago's 200 schools in a year that saw a 15% increase in enrollment.
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The school and property were then sold to the Chicago Public Schools system, which opened the current school in 1998 as Southside College Preparatory Academy. In 2001, the school was named in honor of Gwendolyn Brooks, who was a South Side resident, former U.S. Poet Laureate, and consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress. [9]