List of schools in Chicago Public Schools

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Chicago Public Schools, commonly known as CPS by local residents and politicians, is a vast system of primary and secondary schools confined to Chicago's city limits.

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[edit] Schools

[edit] 7-12 schools

No students are assigned to any of the following schools

[edit] High schools

[edit] Zoned schools

Clemente High School
Lincoln Park High School
Phillips Academy High School

[edit] Option high schools

Jones College Prep High School

[edit] K-8 schools

[edit] Zoned K-8

[edit] Zoned K-8 A
[edit] Zoned K-8 B
[edit] Zoned K-8 C
  • Calhoun North
  • Daniel R. Cameron
  • Canty
  • Carroll/Rosenwald Specialty School School Website
[edit] Zoned K-8 D
[edit] Zoned K-8 E
[edit] Zoned K-8 G
[edit] Zoned K-8 H


[edit] Zoned K-8 J

James Monroe

[edit] Zoned K-8 L
[edit] Zoned K-8 M
[edit] Zoned K-8 N
[edit] Zoned K-8 O
[edit] Zoned K-8 P
[edit] Zoned K-8 R
[edit] Zoned K-8 S

[edit] Non-zoned K-8

[edit] 7-8 schools

[edit] 5-8 schools

[edit] K-6 schools

[edit] Defunct schools

[edit] Former high schools

  • Calumet High School - Closed at the end of the 2005-2006 school year to make way for the Perspectives Charter School, which currently occupies the building.
  • Central High School - Closed back in 1882 due to declining enrollment. The fate of the building is unknown.
  • Collins High School - Now houses the Collins Academy High School.
  • Cooley Vocational High School - (Subject of the film Cooley High) The school, located on the 800 block of West Scott Street, closed at the end of the 1978-1979 school year when it was replaced by a newer high school near by. It was eventually razed. The area around the former Cooley High School building was zoned to nearby Lincoln Park High School.
  • Cregier Vocational High School - Closed at the end of the 1994-1995 school year. Cregier is now home to three smaller schools for special-needs children.
  • Englewood High School - Closed at the end of the 2007-2008 school year due to poor performance. The school is now home to the Urban Prep Charter Academy.
  • English High School - The school is still in operation but the name was changed to Crane High School in 1905.
  • Forrestville High School - The school is still in operation today but the name was changed to King High School in 1971.
  • Harvard High School - Closed at the end of the 1961-1962 school year due to declining enrollment. The building was purchased by St. George's School, but eventually closed and the building was converted into condominiums, with the gymnasium being converted to a family home.
  • Hibbard High School - Closed at the end of the 1926-1927 school year when the nearby Roosevelt High School was completed and students were sent there. Hibbard is still in operation today but as an elementary school.
  • Jefferson High School - Closed at the end of the 1909-1910 school year 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 - The school is still in operation today but the name was changed to Kennedy High School in 1965.
  • Lake High School - This school is still in operation today but the name was changed to Tilden Technical High School(Now the Tilden Carrer Community Academy) in 1915.
  • Loretto High School (Englewood) - Closed at the end of the 1961-1962 school year due to declining enrollment. The fate of the building is unknown.
  • Manual High School - This school is still in operation today but the name was changed to University High School in 1904.
  • Medill High School
  • Metropolitan High School - Closed during the 1990s. The school was located on 160 block of West Wendell. The status of the school is unknown.
  • Near North High School - Closed at the end of the 1998-1999 school year. The building still stands today but its use is unknown.
  • North Park University High School - Closed at the end of the 1968-1969 school year due to declining enrollment and rising costs. The school now serves as an administration building for a college adjacent to the old school.
  • North Division/Waller High School - The school is still in operation today but the name was changed to Waller High School in 1899, and again to Lincoln Park High School in 1979.
  • Northwest Division/Tuley High School - The school's name was changed to Tuley High School in 1906 and closed at the end of the 1973-1974 school year to make way for the opening of the Clemente High School building.
  • Parker High School - Closed at the end of the 1976-1977 school year and reopened as the Robeson High School.
  • Pullman Technical High School - Closed at the end of the 1949-1950 school year due to a lack of money. The building continued in operation as a private school until 1997, when it was converted to the Brooks College Preparatory Academy.
  • South Division High School - Closed at the end of the 1904-1905 school year and reopened as Phillips High School.
  • Tuley/Northwest Division High School - Closed at the end 1973-1974 school year to make way for Clemente High School.
  • Waller/North Division High School - Name changed to Lincoln Park High School in 1979.
  • Washburne Trade School - Closed as a Chicago Public School in 1993, reopened in 1994 as part of the City Colleges of Chicago.[1][2] Closed again in 1996.[2] 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,[2] was considered for landmark status as a Prairie School industrial building but suffered a fire in Feb. 2007[3] and was demolished by 2009.[2] Converted to a vocational training school in 1919,[4] Washburne housed Chicago trade union apprentice programs.[5][2][4]
  • Westcott Vocational High School - Name changed to Simeon Vocational High School in 1964.
  • (West Division) McKinley High School - Closed during the 1960s. The fate of the school is unknown.
  • Westinghouse Career Academy High School (#1) - Closed in 2009 to make way for a newer Westinghouse High School, to be located at the 3300 block of West Franklin Blvd. The old school is scheduled for demolition.

[edit] Former elementary schools

  • Richard Wright Elementary School - Opened 1971 and closed 2004 due to fire.[6]
  • Spry Elementary School - The building was converted into the Spry Community School.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Gordon, Danielle (Sept., 1994). ""Washburne Update: Restraint of Trades". The Chicago Reporter. http://www.chicagoreporter.com/index.php/c/Cover_Stories/d/Washburne_Update:_Restraint_of_Trades. Retrieved Sept. 26, 2009. 
  2. ^ a b c d e "The Last Days of Washburne". Forgotten Chicago. Jan. 8, 2009. http://forgottenchicago.com/features/chicago-industry/the-last-days-of-washburne/. Retrieved Sept. 26, 2009. 
  3. ^ "Chicagoland Watch List Property Suffers Damaging Fire". Landmarks Illinois. 2007. http://www.landmarks.org/preservation_news_archive_washburne_fire.htm. Retrieved Sept. 27, 2009. 
  4. ^ a b Lynch, La Risa (Sept., 1994). "Washburne's Checkered Past". The Chicago Reporter. http://www.chicagoreporter.com/index.php/c/Sidebars/d/Washburne's_Checkered_Past. Retrieved Sept. 30, 2009. 
  5. ^ Worthen, Helena (2002), "Joint Labor–Management Apprenticeship Programs: The Issue of Access to Multi-Employer Training Programs in Chicago’s Construction Industry", Industrial Relations Research Association: Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting, http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/irra/proceedings2002/vi-worthen.html, retrieved Sept. 30, 2009 
  6. ^ Foley, Marybeth (Dec. 2004). ""Richard Wright Elementary dies by fire"". Substance: the newspaper of public education in Chicago. http://www.substancenews.com/content/view/143/81/. Retrieved Sep. 26, 2009. 

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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City of Chicago, Illinois
Chicago metropolitan area - State of Illinois - United States of America
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