Thank you for posting this – any idea why there are high scores out there in rounds 3 or 4. Wouldn’t those folks have accepted an earlier offer?

Also, while making a decision last year, the office told me that they go by the next highest score in round 2, and tiers don’t matter, but it looks like there is something going on with replacing kids in certain tiers if they decline offers? eg. Bell last year. If there was a <span data-sheets-value=”{"1":3,"3":126}” data-sheets-userformat=”{"2":14529,"3":{"1":0,"3":1},"9":1,"10":1,"14":{"1":3,"3":1},"15":"Calibri","16":11}”>126 in tier 2 offered in round 2, why would there be a 142 tier 4 out there for round 3? Did the office give us incorrect information?</span>

1st grade and beyond is entirely different because most* schools aren’t taking full classes, just replacing spots.   However I think there is some positivity if your kid has a decent score – tier is not a factor, many people stop testing after Kinder and stay where they are or flee to the ‘burbs, and even people who test decline offers because they don’t want to move their kids.

These feelings seem to be magnified the further you go up in grade level too, but then at certain schools, they increase class sizes from 28 to 30-something, and so they’ll actually take 4 or more kids in one grade for that next year.  Never give up, ha!

*Beaubien RGC starts at 1st grade and believe since they’re selecting a whole class at that time, tier does come into play.  Forum responses show acceptance scores somewhere around 115 and above, depending on tier.

Sorry, I don’t have any 1st grade data! In addition to Beaubien, I believe Keller’s entry year is also 1st grade, but my understanding is that other schools generally have few spots to fill, so open spots generally go to 99/99s or scores in the 150s. There might be an exception for schools that didn’t fill an entire class in their entry year — Morton, for example.

If you’d like to request 1st grade data from CPS yourself, you can do so here. My request took them about 2 months to complete, but about six hours before they finally sent me the information I requested, I messaged them requesting a status update and mentioned previously fulfilled requests from the archive that were nearly identical to mine, which may have made it easier for them to complete my request (rather that needing to construct a whole new response just for me). In your case, the information you’re interested in is probably very similar to Request Number N009470-040821 (though that request is from about a year ago and didn’t include 2021 data).