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If I apply to a Jones CTE program, do I have to meet scores of Jones SEHS? I was confused because one is listed as a choice and the other is selective.
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Oh, okay! Do you know the difference?
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I believe the CTE spots are filled by lottery with preference given to students who live within neighborhood boundaries around Jones
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Jones CTE is not lottery. They also use the HSEE results for their admittance considerations. When I was at the Jones Open House, the Principal said that because there is a lot of interest in the CTE program, all of the spots are filled with “in-boundary” applicants.
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This is Jones’ Overlay Boundary Map for the Pre-Law and Pre-Engineering CTE spots. If you live within the boundary, you are given preference for admittance for the 75 spots in the CTE program (about 37 or 38 spots for each of those 2 CTE programs). https://drive.google.com/file/d/11AOnbz0lJYakCAg9XzVK9ogOHYVECZaF/view
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Would someone have to live in the proximity at the time they’re applying? My current location isn’t in the range.
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But do you know if kids outside of the boundary have gotten in before?
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At the Open House, the principal stated that last year, they only accepted kids who were in-boundary due to the large volume of applicants. There are only 75 CTE seats. Last year, there were over 2300 applicants for Pre-Engineering and over 2100 applicants for Pre- Law.
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With the preference for kids in the boundary, does that mean a kid inside the boundary could score lower than someone outside and get in? For example, kid A is inside the boundary and scores 870/900 (or lower), and kid B scores 880/900. If there are too many applicants, it’s most likely that only kid A gets in?
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Yes. The boundary matters. They have never taken a student into the program from outside the boundary. The boundary exists because Jones is built with TIF money from those within the boundary.
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This year Jones CTE is listed as a “choice” school on the application. Is it there case that you must rank Jones CTE over or under Lincoln Park ?
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I wanted to apply for Jones CTE but I’m not sure if it’s different than the selective enrollment program. I’m quite confused what the differences and similarities are.
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SEHS is the prestigious path and admissions into them are centrally controlled in a singular process. Choices programs are attractive curricula inside neighborhood schools. Jones is an old school but hasn’t been an SEHS for long. Its CTEs were what local communities demanded it to retain at its “upgrading”.
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They used TIF money to build the school, so those within the boundary whose TIF is used for the 165 million dollar new building have about 70 reserved seats per year.
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I received confirmation from CPS office of Access and Enrollment today that they will use the High School entrance exam score and final 7th grade GPA for admissions into the Pre-law and pre-engineering Jones CTE programs. Students who live within the boundary overlay map get priority over others applying to the program.
If you get into one of these two programs you are required to take one of your two electives each semester in the prescribed law or engineering classes, otherwise, your other classes are with the rest of the high school.
You can read more about the CTE programs in Jone’s handbook:
https://4.files.edl.io/ae23/01/29/21/154521-448a64af-7c1a-481b-874a-752e74c13b9d.pdf
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The only difference between the CTE and the selective enrollment is that the CTE kids take a law or engineering class each year as one of their electives. There isn’t really a difference. And, in fact, because of the rigor of the engineering program, the CTE Engineering is more challenging than selective enrollment in that those kids lose an elective for a detail intensive, math intensive, class. The law program though. . .
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