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.
Schools
High schools
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.
Alternative Learning Options (ALOP) Bridgescape Schools Bridgescape Academy Brainerd Bridgescape Academy Humboldt Park Bridgescape Academy Lawndale Bridgescape Academy Roseland
Career and Technical Education (CTE) Louisa May Alcott College Preparatory High School Ace Amandla Charter High School Amundsen High School* Austin Community Academy High School* Bogan High School* Bowen High School* Chicago Vocational Career Academy* Roberto Clemente Community Academy* Collins Academy High School Curie Metropolitan High School* Dunbar Vocational Career Academy Dyett High School* Farragut Career Academy* Fenger Academy High School* Foreman High School* Gage Park High School* 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* Mather High School* North Grand High School* Wendell Phillips Academy High School* Prosser Career Academy Al Raby High School Richards Career Academy* Roosevelt High School* Carl Schurz High School* Simeon Career Academy Solorio Academy 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 George Westinghouse College Prep Daniel Hale Williams Preparatory School of Medicine Little Black Pearl Art and Design Academy
Charter Acero Charter Schools Major Hector P. Garcia MD Victoria Soto ASPIRA Charter Schools ASPIRA Business and Finance ASPIRA Early College High School Chicago Collegiate Charter School Chicago Math and Science Academy Chicago International Charter School (CICS) CICS ChicagoQuest North CICS Ralph Ellison CICS Longwood CICS Northtown Academy EPIC Academy Charter High School Foundations College Preparatory Charter School Institutio Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy Instituto - Justice Lozano Intrinsic Charter School Noble Network of Charter Schools Baker Butler Chicago Bulls Gary Comer DRW Golder Hansberry ITW Speer Johnson Mansueto Muchin Noble Academy Noble Street Pritzker Rauner Rowe-Clark UIC Perspectives Charter Schools Urban Prep Academies Youth Connection Charter School Latino Youth High School West Town Academy Young Women's Leadership Charter School of Chicago
Citywide-Option Peace & Education Coalition High School Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative High School Simpson Academy High School for Young Women Consuella B. York Alternative High School
Contract Chicago Excel Academy (Camelot charter) Chicago High School for the Arts Chicago Technology Academy Little Black Pearl Art and Design Academy
International Baccalaureate (IB) 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 Hyde Park Academy 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
Magnet Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences Michele Clark Magnet High School 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) Senn High School (Fine and Performing Arts Program) Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center
Military academies
Air Force Academy High School Carver Military Academy Chicago Military Academy Marine Leadership Academy at Ames Phoenix Military Academy Rickover Naval Academy
Neighborhood Amundsen High School* Austin Community Academy High School* Bogan High School* Bowen High School* Chatham Academy High School (no attendance boundaries) Corliss High School* Douglass Academy High School (no attendance boundaries) Dyett High School* Englewood Stem High School Gage Park High School* Harlan Community Academy High School* Hirsch Metropolitan High School* Infinity Math Science & Technology High School* Hubbard High School* Kelvyn Park High School* Kennedy High School* Kenwood Academy* Lake View High School* Lincoln Park High School* Morgan Park High School* North Grand High School* Orr Academy High School* Senn High School* Solorio Academy High School* Tilden High School* George Washington High School*
Selective enrollment 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
Small Louisa May Alcott College Preparatory High School Austin Community Academy High School Bowen High School Bronzeville Scholastic Institute Chicago Academy High School Collins Academy High School Al Raby High School TEAM Englewood Community Academy
Special education Northside Learning Center High School Ray Graham Training Center Southside Occupational High School Vaughn Occupational High School
Elementary/middle schools Zoned Middle Schools Albany Park Multicultural Academy Evergreen Academy Middle School Eugene Field Elementary School Irene C. Hernandez Middle School for the Advancement of Science Francisco I. Madero Middle School Northwest Middle School Robert J. Richardson Middle School James Shields Middle School Wendell E. Green Elementary School
Zoned 3-8 Joseph E. Gary School website
Zoned K-8 Zoned K-8 A Jane Addams School website Harriet Tubman School (formerly Louis A. Agassiz) website Louisa May Alcott School website Ira F. Aldridge School website Ariel School (formerly Shakespeare) website Phillip D. School Armour website George Armstrong School website Ashburn School website Arthur R. Ashe School website John J. Audubon School website Avalon Park School website Mariano Azuela School website
Zoned K-8 B Alice L. Barnard School website Clara Barton School website Perkins Bass School website Newton Bateman School website Jean Baptiste Beaubien School website Ludwig Van Beethoven School website Jacob Beidler School website Hiram H. Belding School website
Belmont-Cragin School website Frank I. Bennett School website James G. Blaine School website Carrie Jacobs Bond School website Mosaic School of Fine Arts School (formerly Daniel Boone) website Edward A. Bouchet School (formerly Bryn Mawr) website Myra Bradwell School website Joseph Brennemann School website Lorenz Brentano School website Norman A. Bridge School website Orville T. Bright School website Brighton Park School website Ronald Brown School (formerly Samuel Gompers) website William H. Brown School website Milton Brunson School website Lyman A. Budlong School website Luther Burbank School website Edmond Burke School website Augustus H. Burley School website Daniel Burnham School (formerly Luella) website Jonathan Burr School website John C. Burroughs School website Michael M. Byrne School website
Zoned K-8 C Charles P. Caldwell School website Calmeca School website Daniel R. Cameron School website Marvin Camras School website Arthur E. Canty School website Lazaro Cardenas School website Andrew Carnegie School website Carroll/Rosenwald Specialty School website Rachel Carson School (formerly Richards Vocational High School) website William W. Carter School website George Washington Carver School website Pablo Casals School website George F. Cassell School website Willa Cather School website Thomas Chalmers School website Eliza Chappell School website Salmon P. Chase School website Cesar E. Chavez School website Frederic Chopin School website Walter S. Christopher School website George Rogers Clark School website Henry Clay School website Grover Cleveland School website DeWitt Clinton School, website Henry R. Clissold School website Johnnie Colemon School website Edward Coles School website Columbia Explorers Academy School website Christopher Columbus School website John W. Cook School website John C. Coonley School website Peter Cooper School website Daniel J. Corkery School website Mary E. Courtenay School (formerly Stockton) website Sol R. Crown School website Paul Cuffe School website Countee Cullen School website George W. Curtis School website
Zoned K-8 D
Richard J. Daley School website Charles R. Darwin School website Nathan S. Davis School website Arthur Dixon Elementary School Everett McKinley Dirksen School website John C. Dore Elementary School website
Zoned K-8 E Christian Ebinger, Sr. School website John F. Eberhart School website
Zoned K-8 G Frank L. Gillespie School website Johann von Goethe School website Virgil Grissom School website
Zoned K-8 H Charles G. Hammond School website Helen M. Hefferan School website John Harvard School website John Hay School website Lionel Hampton Fine & Performing Arts School Robert Healy School website
Zoned K-8 J Edward Jenner Academy of the Arts
Zoned K-8 L
Abraham Lincoln School website Carl von Linné School website
Zoned K-8 M Arnold Mireles School website George Manierre School website Oscar Mayer School website Donald L. Morrill School website
Zoned K-8 N Louis Nettelhorst School website Walter L Newberry Math & Science Academy website Florence Nightingale School website
Zoned K-8 O Ogden International School Otis World Language Academy - It was established in 1880 as Armour Street School and became James Otis School in 1901. Mildred E. Chuchut served as principal from 1960 to 1962. At some point a petition circulated that stated that she caused damage to the morale there. - Clipping of first and of the second pages from Newspapers.com. It became James Otis World Language Academy in 2006.
Zoned K-8 P Brian Piccolo School (formerly Rezin Orr) website Ernst Prussing School website Mary G. Peterson Elementary School A.N. Prtizker School
Zoned K-8 R Irma C. Ruiz School website Ravenswood School website Rogers Fine Arts School website
Zoned K-8 S Mark Sheridan Math & Science Academy website Mark Skinner Elementary School website Washington D. Smyser Elementary School website Sidney Sawyer Elementary School website Harriet E. Sayre Language Academy website South Loop Elementary School website Harriet Beecher Stowe Dual Language School, formerly Stowe Elementary School, in West Humboldt, Chicago up to the early 1970s had an entirely white student body. In 1966, it had 1,212 students and 38 teachers. On August 10, 1966, Mildred Chucut became principal after being transferred from Jenner School."Miss Chuchut Transferred." Chicago Tribune. Thursday, August 11, 1966 - Page 1. Clipping of first page and clipping of second page (on page 7) from Newspapers.com By the 1970s, the student population included many Latinx. There were accusations of her disrespecting students, with some groups asking for her removal, much like how accusations were made against her when she was principal at Jenner. She denied the accusations and credited them to agitators trying to install a Latinx principal.