Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is a large public school district consisting of primary and secondary schools within the city limits of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois.
There are several types of high schools in the district, including neighborhood, career academy, charter, contract, magnet, military academy, selective enrollment, small and special education.
College and career academies
Louisa May Alcott College Preparatory High School
Al Raby School for Community and Environment
Amundsen High School
Austin Community Academy High School
Bowen High School
Chicago Academy High School
Chicago Vocational Career Academy
Roberto Clemente Community Academy
Curie Metropolitan High School
Dunbar Vocational Career Academy
Farragut Career Academy
Fenger Academy High School
Foreman High School
Foundations college prep
Gage Park High School
George Westinghouse College Prep
Hancock High School
Harlan Community Academy High School
Harper High School
Hirsch Metropolitan High School
Hyde Park Academy High School
Jones College Prep High School
Benito Juarez Community Academy
Julian High School
Thomas Kelly High School
Manley Career Academy High School
John Marshall Metropolitan High School
Wendell Phillips Academy High School
Prosser Career Academy
Richards Career Academy
Roosevelt High School
Carl Schurz High School
Simeon Career Academy
Stephen Tyng Mather High School
South Shore International College Preparatory High School
Roger C. Sullivan High School
Uplift Community High School
George Washington High School
Wells Community Academy High School
Daniel Hale Williams Preparatory School of Medicine
Chicago Virtual Charter School
CICS Longwood
CICS Northtown Academy
Noble Network of Charter Schools
Perspectives Charter Schools
West Town Academy
Youth Connection Charter School
Young Women's Leadership Charter School
Chicago Excel Academy
Chicago High School for the Arts
Chicago Technology Academy
Community Services West Career Academy
Amundsen High School
Back of the Yards College Preparatory High School
Benito Juarez Community Academy
Bogan High School
Bronzeville Scholastic Institute
Carl Schurz High School
Curie Metropolitan High School
Farragut Career Academy
George Washington High School
Hubbard High School
Kennedy High School
Lincoln Park High School
Morgan Park High School
Ogden International High School
Prosser Career Academy
Roberto Clemente Community Academy
Senn High School
South Shore International College Preparatory High School
Steinmetz College Prep
Thomas Kelly High School
Taft High School
Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences
Crane Medical Preparatory High School
Curie Metropolitan High School
DeVry University Advantage Academy - Grades 11-12, with college credit
Disney II Magnet High School
Harlan Community Academy High School (Engineering Program)
Michele Clark Magnet High School
Senn High School (Fine and Performing Arts Program)
Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center
Air Force Academy High School
Carver Military Academy
Chicago Military Academy at Bronzeville
Marine Leadership Academy at Ames
Phoenix Military Academy
Rickover Naval Academy
Corliss High School
Dyett Academic Center
John Hope College Preparatory High School
Kelvyn Park High School
Kenwood Academy
Lake View High School
North Grand High School
Orr Academy High School
Paul Robeson High School
Tilden High School
George Westinghouse College Prep
Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy
John Hancock College Preparatory High School
Jones College Prep High School
King College Prep
Lane Technical College Prep High School
Northside College Preparatory High School
Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy
South Shore International College Preparatory High School
Walter Payton College Prep
Whitney M. Young Magnet High School
Collins Academy High School
TEAM Englewood Community Academy
Northside Learning Center High School
Ray Graham Training Center
Southside Occupational High School
Vaughn Occupational High School
Simpson Academy for Young Women
York Alternative High School
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Abbott School website
Agassiz School website
Jane Addams School website
Louisa May Alcott School website
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Alexander Graham Bell School
Beaubien School website
Beidler
Brentano School website
Clara Barton School website
Myra Bradwell School website
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Canty
Carroll/Rosenwald Specialty School School website
George F. Cassell Elementary School
Daniel R. Cameron
DeWitt Clinton School
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Arthur Dixon Elementary School
Everett McKinley Dirksen School website
John C. Dore Elementary School School website
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Christian Ebinger, Sr. School website
John F. Eberhart School website
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Frank L. Gillespie School website
Goethe School website
Virgil Grissom School website
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Charles G. Hammond School website
Helen M. Hefferan School website
John Hay School website
Lionel Hampton Fine & Performing Arts School
Robert Healy School website
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Jenner
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Abraham Lincoln School website
Carl von Linné School website
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Arnold Mireles School website
George Manierre School website
Oscar Mayer School website
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Louis Nettelhorst School website
Walter L Newberry Math & Science Academy School website
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William B. Ogden
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Brian Piccolo (formerly Rezin Orr) School website
Ernst Prussing School website
Mary G Peterson Elementary School
Pritzker School
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Irma C. Ruiz School website
Ravenswood School website
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Mark T. Skinner School website
South Loop School website
Washington D. Smyser Elementary School School website
Chicago Public Schools offers a wide variety of choices for elementary school students, including neighborhood, academic centers, charter, classical, contract, international gifted program, magnet, regional gifted center, small and special education.
Academic centers are housed in high schools and provide a college preparatory program for academically gifted and talented seventh and eighth grade students. There are seven academic centers:
The instructional program in classical schools is accelerated and highly structured for strong academic achievement in literature, mathematics, language arts, world language, and the humanities. There are five classical schools:
Lincoln
There are eleven regional gifted centers:
Moses Montefiore Academy (7-9)
Academy of Communications and Technology Charter School - closed in 2010, the school building at 4319 W. Washington Blvd. was built in 1906 as St. Mel Catholic grade school
Calumet High School (1919–2006) - made way for the Perspectives Charter School, which currently occupies the building
Carter Harrison Technical High School (1910–1983) - now houses the Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy
Cecil Partee Academic Preparatory Center - occupied the old Hookway Elementary School
Chicago High School (1856–1880) - renamed Central High School in 1878, closed in 1880; building demolished in 1950 to make way for the Kennedy Expressway
Chicago Talent Development High School (2009–2014)
Collins High School - the building at 1313 South Sacramento Drive (inside Douglas Park) now houses both the Collins Academy High School and the North Lawndale College Prep High School
Cooley Vocational High School (1958–1979) - subject of the film Cooley High; the school, located on the 800 block of West Scott Street, closed in 1979 when it was replaced by a newer high school nearby and was eventually razed; the area around the former school was zoned to nearby Lincoln Park High School
Cregier Vocational High School - closed at the end of the 1994-1995 school year; now home to three smaller schools for special-needs children
DuSable High School
Englewood Technical Prep Academy (1873–2008) - closed due to poor performance; now houses TEAM Englewood Community Academy and Urban Prep Charter Academy
English High and Manual Training School - renamed to Crane High School in 1905
Forrestville High School - renamed to King College Prep High School in 1971
Harvard High School (1865–1962) - closed in 1962 due to declining enrollment; last used by St. George's School before the building was converted into condominiums and a family home
Hibbard High School - closed in 1927 when the nearby Roosevelt High School was completed and students were sent there; remains in operation as an elementary school
Jefferson High School - closed in 1910 when the nearby Schurz High School was completed and students were sent there; the school was eventually razed and the Irish American Heritage Center was built on the site
Kinzie High School - renamed to Kennedy High School in 1965
Lake High School - renamed to Tilden Technical High School (now the Tilden Career Community Academy) in 1915
Las Casas Occupational High School (closed 2011)
Lewis Institute High School - closed in 1917; merged with Armour Institute of Technology in 1940 to form the present-day Illinois Institute of Technology
Loretto High School (Englewood) - closed in 1962 due to declining enrollment; the fate of the building is unknown
Lucy Flower Vocational High School (1911–2003) - named after Lucy Flower; present site of Al Raby School for Community and Environment
Manual High School - renamed to University High School in 1904
Medill High School - 1300 block of W. 14th place. First built in the 1890s, buildings on that site housed various grade levels. The high school closed in 1948.
Metropolitan High School - closed during the 1990s; the school's status, located on 160 block of West Wendell, is unknown
Near North Career Metro High School - closed in 2001; the building still stands today but its use is unknown
North Park University High School - closed in 1969 due to declining enrollment and rising costs; now serves as an administration building for an adjacent college
Parker High School - opened in 1901; closed in 1977 and reopened as Paul Robeson High School
Pullman Technical High School - closed in 1950 due to budget constraints; continued to operate as a private school until 1997 when it was converted to the Brooks College Preparatory Academy
South Division High School - closed in 1905 and reopened as Wendell Phillips Academy High School
South Shore High School
Spalding (1908–2004) - K through 12 school at 1628 W. Washington; building reopened as Hope Institute Learning Academy, a private school with a CPS contract emphasizing services for special-needs children
Tuley/Northwest Division High School - closed in 1974 to make way for the new Roberto Clemente Community Academy
Waller/North Division High School - renamed to Lincoln Park High School in 1979
Washburne Trade School - closed in 1993; reopened in 1994 as part of the City Colleges of Chicago before closing again in 1996. The culinary trade program continues as Washburne Culinary Institute of Kennedy-King College. Washburne school building at 3233 W. 31st St., built in 1910 as the Liquid Carbonic Co. factory and housing the school from 1958 until closing, was considered for landmark status as a Prairie School industrial building but suffered a fire in Feb. 2007 and was demolished by 2009. Converted to a vocational training school in 1919, Washburne was home to Chicago trade union apprentice programs; students earned a high school diploma at the same time.
(West Division) McKinley High School - closed during the 1960s; the fate of the school is unknown. Its most famous alum is Walt Disney.
Westcott Vocational High School - renamed to Simeon Career Academy in 1964
Westinghouse Career Academy High School - closed in 2009 to make way for the new George Westinghouse College Prep (now selective enrollment) on the 3300 block of West Franklin Blvd.
Amelia Dunne Hookway School - closed in 1981 due to underenrollment. A transitional high school for ninth graders, Cecil Partee Academic Preparatory Center was later housed in that same building. Partee was later relocated to Chicago Vocational Career Academy. In 1988, Lenart Regional Gifted Center opened a selective admissions elementary school in that site.
Jefferson Elementary School
Katherine Lee Bates - opened in 1960 and closed in 1979; in 1981 Tabernacle Christian Academy moved into that same building at 1203 W. 109th Place, and is currently in operation
R.S. Abbott Elementary School - located on 3630 S. Wells; opened in 1881 and closed in 2008; the building currently houses Air Force Academy High School
Richard Wright Elementary School - opened in 1971 and closed in 2004 due to fire
Spry Elementary School - building was converted into the Spry Community School
Stockton Elementary School- renamed Courtenay Language Arts Center in 2013