Rank your schools.On the application form you will be asked to select and rank which schools you wish to apply to. You are allowed to apply tosixSelective Enrollment High Schools. With CPS’ admissions policy you will receive only one Selective Enrollment High School acceptance. It is still i...
In this paper, we examine whether expanded access to sought-after schools can improve academic achievement. The setting we study is the "open enrollment" system in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). We use lottery data to avoid the critical issue of non-random selection of students into schools...
For the past seven years, CPS has been using a socioeconomic Tier system to select students for all of its selective admissions schools. Currently, thirty percent of seats are allocated to students with the highest academic performance citywide – regardless of their “socioeconomic statu...
The setting we study is the "open enrollment" system in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). We use lottery data to avoid the critical issue of non-random selection of students into schools. Our analysis sample includes nearly 450 lotteries for kindergarten and first grade slots at 32 popular ...
King is one of the few Selective Enrollment High Schools that currently accepts transfer students as incoming sophomores. In 2011, Jeffrey Wright, who was hired from Jones College Prep in 2006 (where he was an Assistant Principal), was replaced by LeeAndra Khan. Principal Khan, an alumna of ...
Northside College Prep, one of the newer Selective Enrollment High Schools, opened its doors in 1999, becoming the first new Chicago Public High School to be built in 20 years. Northside quickly became an academic powerhouse. It ranked first in the state on the Prairie State Exams for the pa...