45,146 students will be affected by school closings
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has marked 129 elementary schools for closure or consolidation based on utilization, performance, and community feedback. Closing a school is a very disruptive decision, affecting student outcomes, parental confidence, and neighborhood stability. In addition to showing the data being used by CPS, this website aims to help school leaders, parents, and communities learn more about the schools being closed, and what options may be available.
129 schools are affected
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- Closing
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- Closing grades 9-11
- Receiving
- Phasing out over 2 years
- Altgeld closing
- Armstrong, L. closing
- Attucks phasing out over 2 years
- Banneker closing
- Barton turnaround
- Bass receiving
- Beethoven receiving
- Bethune closing
- Bontemps closing
- Brennemann receiving
- Buckingham closing
- Burke receiving
- Burnham relocating receiving
- Calhoun North closing
- Canter Middle closing
- Cardenas receiving
- Carter turnaround
- Castellanos receiving
- Cather receiving
- Chalmers turnaround
- Chappell receiving
- Chopin receiving
- Courtenay relocating receiving
- Crown Academy receiving
- Cuffe receiving
- Cullen receiving
- Curtis receiving
- De Priest receiving
- Delano closing
- Dett relocating receiving
- Dewey turnaround
- Diego receiving
- Disney II relocating
- Drake co-locating receiving
- Dulles receiving
- Dumas closing
- Duprey closing
- Earle relocating receiving
- Ellington receiving
- Emmet closing
- Ericson closing
- Faraday receiving
- Fermi closing
- Fiske relocating receiving
- Fort Dearborn receiving
- Garfield Park closing
- Garvey closing
- Goldblatt closing
- Gompers receiving
- Goodlow closing
- Gregory receiving
- Gresham receiving
- Haley receiving
- Harte receiving
- Harvard receiving
- Hefferan receiving
- Henson closing
- Herbert closing
- Herzl receiving
- Hughes L. receiving
- Hughes, C. receiving
- Jackson M. closing
- Jenner receiving
- Jensen receiving
- Johnson receiving
- Key closing
- King closing
- Kohn closing
- LaFayette closing
- Langford receiving
- Lavizzo receiving
- Lawrence closing
- Leland relocating receiving
- Lewis turnaround
- Manierre closing
- Marconi closing
- Marshall, T. co-locating
- Mason closing grades 9 to 11
- May closing
- Mayo closing
- Mays relocating receiving
- McCutcheon receiving
- McPherson receiving
- Melody relocating receiving
- Metcalfe receiving
- Mollison receiving
- Montefiore receiving
- Morgan closing
- Mount Vernon receiving
- Near North closing
- Nicholson receiving
- O'Keeffe turnaround
- O'Toole receiving
- Otis receiving
- Overton closing
- Owens closing
- Paderewski closing
- Parkman closing
- Peabody closing
- Peirce receiving
- Penn receiving
- Pershing relocating receiving
- Pershing West closing
- Pope closing
- Ray receiving
- Ross closing
- Ryder receiving
- Ryerson closing
- Sexton closing
- Sherwood receiving
- Songhai closing
- South Shore receiving
- Stewart closing
- Stockton closing
- Sumner receiving
- Tilton receiving
- Trumbull closing
- Von Humboldt closing
- Wadsworth relocating receiving
- Ward, L. relocating receiving
- Webster receiving
- Wells relocating receiving
- Wentworth relocating receiving
- West Pullman closing
- Westcott receiving
- Williams closing
- Williams Middle closing
- Woods Acad closing
- Yale closing
A detailed look at schools on the list
The following data helps better understand each school.
ISAT performance by cohort
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The percent of students meeting or exceeding state standards on standardized tests is tracked for one group, or cohort, of students from grades 3—8. This shows how a specific set of students performed over time.
Left: King
5Essentials trends
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An evaluation of a school’s ability to be successful, based on instructional content, school environment, family involvement, teacher collaboration, and effective leadership, according to The University of Chicago.
Left: Pershing West
Probation status trends
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Each year CPS evaluates schools to determine if they should be placed on probation and targeted for improvement measures. Schools on probation tend to have more leadership changes, creating a less stable learning environment.
Left: Marconi
Mobility rate trends
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Mobility rate measures how many students transfer into, or out of, the school at times other than the beginning or end of a school year. When a school has a high mobility rate, it is more difficult to tell whether a school is making progress.
Left: Lawrence
Enrollment trends
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This is the number of students attending the school, taken on the 20th day of each school year. It is used to determine future needs for space, personnel, equipment, etc.
Left: Crown Community