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The newspaper was the first to win a first-place ranking in the city of Chicago. South Shore students won first place two consecutive times in an annual essay contest sponsored by the citizen school's committee in 1981 and 1982. [8] The school was featured in a CBS documentary about the Chicago's public school system in 1984. [9]
In the late 1990s—to stanch the loss of students—Chicago Public Schools made significant changes to the school to attract more neighborhood students. These included an NJROTC unit, a selective-enrollment academic center for 7th and 8th grade students, and an International Baccalaureate Diploma program.
Dodge Elementary School - Now served as Chicago Public Schools, Garfield Park Office. Ana Roque De Duprey School - located at 2620 W Hirsch St.; voted to be closed in 2013. The Board of Education approved a sale to IFF Von Humboldt on Jul 22, 2015 for $3,100,000.
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.
Northside College Preparatory is rated a 10 out of 10 by GreatSchools.org, a national school quality information site. [5] GreatSchools’ Summary Rating is based on four of the school’s themed ratings: the Test Score Rating, Student or Academic Progress Rating, College Readiness Rating, and Equity Rating and flags for discipline and attendance disparities at a school.
As Chicago Public Schools finalizes a new policy prohibiting cops in schools, state lawmakers are set to vote on a bill that could upend their plans Sarah Macaraeg, Chicago Tribune May 23, 2024 at ...
Chicago Public Schools were the most racial-ethnically separated among large city school systems, according to research by The New York Times in 2012, [47] as a result of most students' attending schools close to their homes. In the 1970s the Mexican origin student population grew in CPS, although it never exceeded 10% of the total CPS student ...
Through the program, CIS of Chicago, like its sibling affiliates across the U.S., places a staff member on the ground 4 days a week to do two key things: (1) provide ongoing intervention services to students at relatively high risk of dropping out and (2) help coordinate support services via community partners for all students. In 2019-20, CIS ...