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Founded in 1999, it was the first new Chicago Public School (CPS) high school to be built in 20 years. It is a selective enrollment school, and teaches only at the Honors and AP levels (excluding the P.E. department). Northside has earned a reputation for academic excellence, and has been consistently ranked as the #1 high school in Illinois.
Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy is a public four-year selective enrollment magnet high school and middle school located in the Roseland neighborhood, near the Pullman District on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. [5] Opened in 1998, The school is operated by Chicago Public Schools district.
George Westinghouse College Preparatory High School (formerly known as Westinghouse Area Vocational High School) is a public four-year college preparatory selective enrollment high school located in the Humboldt Park [3] neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. [4]
Enrollment:250 The Thacher School is in California's serene Ojai Valley where the mountains run east to west and hiking and horseback riding are common outdoor activities for students and faculty.
Payton is one of the city's eleven selective enrollment high schools. [ 5 ] Payton is known for its advanced academic programs provided within an international model for teaching and learning. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Payton Concert Choir was one of eight United States choirs to travel to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
These schools are generally for academically high-achieving students and require a test and high grades and test scores in order for applicants to be accepted. Other selective-enrollment schools in Chicago include Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, Walter Payton College Preparatory High School, and Hancock High School.
The school board scared the daylights out of parents of Chicago school-age children late last year when it called for a rethinking of Chicago Public Schools’ selective-enrollment options. This ...
Lane is a selective-enrollment-based school in which students must take a test and pass a certain benchmark in order to be offered admission. [8] Lane is one of eleven selective enrollment schools in Chicago. It is a diverse school with many of its students coming from different ethnicities and economic backgrounds. [9]