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Dear LVHS Community,
I am excited to share with you that I have accepted the principal position at Walter Payton College Prep and will be transitioning to that role at the end of this school year. I am eager to apply everything I’ve learned from the administrative team, teachers, families, and students at Lake View to my work at Payton. And I am humbled and honored by the outpouring of support and encouragement I’ve already received as people have learned of this news.
The decision to pursue and accept this opportunity was a difficult one. Lake View has been my home for the past two years and in my time here I’ve been deeply affected by the dedicated and caring people with whom I’ve had the pleasure to work, and the amazing students I’ve served. I’ve had moments of joy and inspiration every day as I walked down the halls, popped into classrooms, collaborated with teachers, planned with the administrative team, or spent time with my own students in the course I taught.
I also want to acknowledge that I’m leaving without a proper goodbye. There are no hugs and high-fives, no last-day send-offs, no in-person celebrations for any of us. In this time of the Covid-19 Crisis, we’re all left with a lack of closure for this year and anxiety about what’s to come. And for that, my heart is heavy. I find solace in the ways we have worked to support one another and take care during this unprecedented time. I take pride in the dedication and innovation I have seen over the past six weeks. I find hope in the perseverance of teachers and students in the face of adversity.
And while I may be leaving Lake View to lead my own school, this community will always have a place in my heart. After all, Lake View High School is HOME.
With heartfelt appreciation and esteem,
Melissa ReshThis is from https://go.cps.edu/elementary-school/learn
ROUND 2 OFFERS
Round 2 gives families another chance to apply to Choice schools via online or paper application to schools with available seats remaining. Families can apply to up to 20 Choice schools, even if they have already accepted a Round 1 offer or Round 1 waitlist offer. The start date for Round 2 will be released once it has been finalized.
ROUND 2 WAITLISTS
Similar to Round 1 waitlists, there’s a separate waitlist period after the Round 2 application period ends. Round 2 waitlists are a separate set of waitlists for the Choice Schools to which the student applied.
If students applied in both application rounds, they could be on two separate waitlists. The student will be waitlisted until February 2021, unless they are issued a waitlist offer or proactively remove themselves from the waitlist. Students can only accept one waitlist offer at any time. Accepting an offer automatically declines any other offer received.
All waitlist offers, regardless of application period, have the same 48 business hour acceptance window before the seat is forfeited.
Interesting to note that if there are 120 students selected for 7th grade at Whitney Young Academic Center, and 30% got in due to rank (top scorers irregardless of CPS Tier), then apparently 36 students scored 900 on the AC rubric and were admitted to WYAC.https://cps.edu/SiteCollectionDocuments/gocps/GoCPS_Cutoff_AcademicCenters_2019.pdf
The Academic Center Cutoff Scores for 2020-2021 are here: https://cps.edu/SiteCollectionDocuments/gocps/GoCPS_Cutoff_AcademicCenters_2019.pdf
Unfortunately CPS no longer publishes a “hard copy” of that map. Instead, families can search for schools by type, grades, programs, etc at https://go.cps.edu/search
I don’t find the online version as easy to refer to, however.
Thank you for starting this Brooks thread! Can you tell us what you and/or your student loves best about Brooks and what factors tipped you to choosing it?
Getting an offer to a selective enrollment high school in Chicago is a big deal. But CPS blames a ‘clerical error’ for some students getting passed up.
When the clock struck 5 p.m. on Friday, March 27, eighth grade families throughout Chicago gathered around computers as high school admissions offers started appearing online.
But a week later, some of the teens are still waiting to find out where they got in.
Nearly 200 students who took the selective enrollment exam at King College Prep in January have since learned that they may have been affected by an error that prevented them from receiving offers from the 11 selective enrollment schools in Chicago Public Schools. CPS officials said they were alerted to the issue late Friday after hearing from families who weren’t seeing scores posted on their online CPS accounts.
Derek Nelson and Erika Chavez’s daughter is one of them. That evening, the girl’s phone starting going off with messages from friends who got in at coveted schools. But no selective enrollment offers were showing on her screen.
“She’s a pretty mature and reserved kid, so it’s hard to read her,” Chavez said. “When her dad and I finally sat down to check in on her, she did say she was disappointed and angry — or the other way around: angry and disappointed.”
Nelson knows what it’s like, though the process has changed since he was a CPS student. He didn’t get into Whitney Young and went to his neighborhood high school, Kenwood Academy. Chavez attended Lane Tech, where their daughter would love to go.
Accepting she didn’t get in to the highly competitive school would be one thing. Waiting for closure is worse.
Derek Nelson and Erika Chavez are waiting to find out what high school their eighth grade daughter, right, will be accepted to attend. They’re worried her test scores might be not just misplaced but missing.(Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)Chavez called another eighth grade parent and figured out that her own daughter was missing selective enrollment test scores, which account for one-third of the admissions criteria, along with seventh-grade grades and standardized assessments. Scores are released after the high school application deadline, and often at the same time as high school offers.
“It was disappointment and frustration,” Chavez said. “They work so hard, and there’s just so much stress around this process that begins in seventh grade. To have that transpire in addition to all the social and emotional impact of the ongoing pandemic and transition to remote learning …”
Months or years of preparation and buildup lead Chicago students to one of the most critical moments in their young lives: finding out, in the spring of their eighth grade year, where they may go to high school in the fall.
Students can apply to as many as 20 “choice” programs and six selective enrollment schools, and get at most one selective enrollment offer and one choice offer, in addition to guaranteed admission at their neighborhood school. “Choice” programs, such as International Baccalaureate, fine arts, prelaw and pre-engineering, have varying admissions criteria, which can include auditions or portfolio reviews, point systems and lotteries.
Current eighth graders who submitted applications received first-round offers Friday, and have until April 22 to accept or decline. That date was pushed back due to the coronavirus pandemic. The second-round waitlist process opens April 27.
Among those eighth graders who did receive their offers, more than half got into their first-choice school, while about 80% received one of their top three choices, according to CPS. However, for just the selective enrollment schools, fewer than 16% of applicants got their first choice.
“We recognize the stress this places on families affected by this delay and we extend sincere apologies,” CPS said in a letter to parents.
Chavez and Nelson’s daughter had prepared for the test for a year but still stayed up late the night before studying extra vocabulary, because that was the most challenging part of the private school admissions tests she’d taken. The test took more than three hours, and she remembers feeling confident, “maybe a little bit too confident.”
“It was way easier than the private school tests,” said the 13-year-old, who attends LaSalle II Magnet School in East Ukrainian Village. “My GPA from the seventh grade was pretty good, my NWEA score was above average, I thought I’d have done well.”
While she waits to find out, she’s trying to be patient, she said.
“I remember the test being ordinary, and I followed all the directions the lady gave me and finished the questions thinking I’d be getting my results back on March 27,” she said. “… If they couldn’t have my scores for me, did they even get them?”
The email CPS sent to parents indicated the answer may not come this week.
“… We are working to update the score information and expect to have an update for families by early next week. Please be assured that this clerical error will not impact your child’s placement in a selective enrollment school. If your child is eligible, they will be offered a seat at a selective enrollment school.”
CPS officials said the letter went to 189 students, but have not explicitly provided the number of students affected by the “clerical error,” or said if their test scores have been located. The district staff is “working on a resolution,” they said.
One set of parents who got the email said their 13-year-old daughter was extremely stressed going into the test and even more stressed coming out of it. They didn’t want to risk her feeling devastated twice, so for now they’re just telling her she didn’t get an offer at a selective enrollment school, and planning to tell her later on if she does, which is why they didn’t want to be named.
“In the event they don’t get an offer when CPS fixes the issue, we didn’t want to go through that re-traumatization,” the father said.
Parents of affected students say they are worried about next steps and they’re finding it hard to plan without knowing what their options are. They wonder if they should be working on applications for principal discretion, a process through which students who didn’t make the cut can advocate for a spot. And, meanwhile, private school deadlines are looming. Chavez and Nelson’s daughter applied to private schools too, and the family was waiting on CPS offers before making a final decision.
Though the district may have its hands full, Nelson said the shutdown has only given parents like him more time to worry, and he wonders how the error could have been prevented.
Chavez keeps thinking of her daughter and her peers, for whom the high school offers are similar to decisions seniors face about college. “It boils down to, we have been working and looking forward to this for so long, and to not have an answer,” she said.
In Humboldt Park, right at 5 p.m. on March 27, Kathleen Lyons and her daughter sat in front of the computer and opened the results page, the eighth grader hoping for a spot at the same school as her older sister. She’d felt good about the test she took in January. But they saw no selective enrollment offers, and no test results.
Lyons remained glued to the computer, refreshing the site, until nearly midnight, while her daughter got text after text about friends getting into schools, including her top pick. Her daughter had planned to bake a cake to celebrate the news. She baked one anyway.
“She’s just waiting and waiting and waiting,” Lyons said. “She’s disappointed. All her friends know where they’re going, and it would be nice to know if you’re going with them or not.”
Lyons is trying to be understanding, while obsessively checking a parent blog and the GoCPS portal for updates.
“I feel bad, because I know the school is going through a lot,” she said. “I feel like it will work out in the end.”
Find your tier by entering your address in to https://schoolinfo.cps.edu/schoollocator/index.html
A blue band will show up with your address and the Tier to the left. Below that will be your assigned neighborhood K-8 elementary and 9-12 high school.
Cutoff score for Choice High Schools were also published: https://cps.edu/SiteCollectionDocuments/gocps/GoCPS_Cutoff_Choice_2020-21.pdf
Cutoff scores for SEHS were published: https://cps.edu/SiteCollectionDocuments/gocps/GoCPS_Cutoff_SEHS_2020-21.pdf
Academic Center notifications will come with the elementary schools, which is on April 24, most likely after 5pm. A long wait!
Please feel free to post high school results here: https://chicagoschooloptions.com/forums/topic/spring-2020-cps-hs-offers/
From 2/12/20, Oscar Mayer’s Principal Drayton:
Tuition Based Update
After an extensive community engagement process with the Oscar Mayer working group that included over 10 working group sessions, community forums, and meetings, the Chicago Board of Education accepted our recommendation to phase out PreK-3 and offer tuition-based Pre-K to only four-year-olds beginning this upcoming fall. Tuition-based Pre-K4 will continue to be offered until we introduce universal, free Pre-K in the coming years.
