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Thanks for finding the forum. In answer to your questions:
1. The new CPS HS Admissions Test is supposedly a retooling of the past Selective Enrollment High School test, which had 4 sections (reading comprehension, grammar, vocabulary and math word problems). It used to be paper and pencil and took over 3 hours. Now it is online, timed, and apparently each section adds up to about 2.25 hours.
2. CPS has a way to calculate Socio-Economic Tiers for any address within the US, but addresses from outside the US will be considered Tier 4, the highest socio-economic tier. I can’t find where I saw this information but it is buried within the CPS info somewhere.
We also heard that they are not sure what the total point rubric will be (900 or 600 pts) and they also don’t believe that students will receive their test scores before the application closes, so families are encouraged to rank their school choices without that knowledge.
This new CPS High School Admissions Test will be given to ALL 8th grade CPS students and will be used to select students for any programs that previously had NWEA MAP scores in their rubric such as Selective Enrollment, Magnet, International Baccalaureate, Service Academies, CTE programs.
The CPS High School Admissions Test will be available to all current CPS students applying to ninth grade on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021. Students will take the exam at their school during the school day.
The CPS High School Admissions Test will be available to all non-CPS students applying to ninth grade at a designated CPS location on the following dates:
- Saturday, November 13th, 2021
- Sunday, November 14th, 2021
- Saturday, November 20th, 2021
- Sunday, November 21st, 2021
Registration information for all students will be forthcoming.
For Non-CPS students, these are the four testing dates for this application cycle. Please hold these dates now to ensure that you are available to test if you are planning to apply to a CPS high school.
See this post for more info https://chicagoschooloptions.com/cps-high-school-admissions-test-dates-announced/
The test will also be digital this year instead of pencil and paper.
What grade was your son applying for? If for Kindergarten, he should have automatically been given both the RGC (scale score) and Classical exams (reading & math percentile scores). If applying for upper grades, the exam(s) given depend on which programs you selected. If you only selected RGC programs, he would not have to take the Classical reading & math tests.
SEHS Cutoffs are posted: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14i_837GQCPcWnvU2feSN6mzPssnhVNDR/view
From the Go.cps.edu website:
ES OFFERS WILL BE RELEASED ON MAY 28TH, 2021.
Instructions on how to access your results will be emailed to you the week of May 24th. If you have questions, contact 773-553-2060 or gocps@cps.edu.To find how many applicants and how many offers were made for Selective Enrollment and Magnet programs, go to the CPS School Locator or Find a School and type in the name of a school https://www.cps.edu/schools/find-a-school/
Then click on the Admissions tab to see applicants and offers for the prior admissions cycle. Example for Edison: https://www.cps.edu/schools/schoolprofiles/609794
Very much overdue and happy to have this as a choice for Chicago families! Write-up in Chicago Parent: https://www.chicagoparent.com/sponsored-content/morton-school-of-excellence/
Check out the latest thread for 2021-2022 applications here: https://chicagoschooloptions.com/forums/topic/sehs-exam-dates-for-2021-2022-application/#new-post
If the family attended by virtue of it being their automatic neighborhood school and they moved out at a grade that was not too crowded, then sometimes a principal can allow students to stay. This most often happens around 7th grade, especially if the student has been there for many years because 7th grade sometimes thins out with Academic Centers being an option for advanced middle schoolers.
It is rare and it is on a case by case basis, so it will be hard to predict years in advance if the school continues to be crowded in all grades.
This is from page 15 & 48 of this helpful doc: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lxIrTjYrRjk01Iz8ETxgzs_90xswuYm8/view
TIER PROCESS: Selective Enrollment Elementary Schools
For the entry-grade levels at Selective Enrollment Elementary Schools, the first 30% of available seats at each school are filled strictly according to the student’s admissions exam scores (for Classical Schools and Regional Gifted
Centers) or final points (for Academic Centers); the seats are filled by the top-scoring students. The remaining seats are equally distributed among the four tiers and are filled by the highest-scoring students in each tier. In non-entry level grades, students are selected on the basis of their admissions exam scores or final points alone; there is no tier
consideration.SELECTION QUESTIONS
How are students selected?
Applicants for the Regional Gifted Centers and Classical Schools are selected based on their admissions exam score, and applicants for the Academic Centers are selected based on a point system. Students who earn a score below 115 may not be considered potential candidates for a Regional Gifted Center seat. Students who earn a score below the 75th percentile in either reading or mathematics or both may not be considered potential
candidates for a Classical Schools seat. Selection for all applicants is in accordance with the admissions policy for magnet, selective enrollment and other GoCPS programs.If my child is not selected, is it possible for her to be selected later?
Yes. After the seats at each school are filled, eligible non-selected students will remain in an applicant pool. This is not a traditional waiting list, where students are assigned numbers – students are ranked by score in the applicant pool. If your child declines an offer or does not receive an offer, they will remain in the applicant pool and has a
chance to receive an offer in a later selection round.CPS just released their NWEA MAP plan for rising 8th graders as they navigate the process for HS 2021-2022.
“To determine eligibility for students applying for high school admission for the 2021-2022 school year, CPS will consider students’ highest NWEA MAP scores from any of the following prior administrations:
- Spring 2019 (2018-2019 school year)
- Fall 2019 (2019-2020 school year)
- Winter 2019 (2019-2020 school year)”
There are provisions for non-CPS students who still need to take NWEA in October, and rumors of options for students who want to retake it in Winter 2020. Check it out and stay tuned.
CPS just released their dates for the 2021-2022 Application: https://go.cps.edu/about-gocps/2020-process-changes
- September 14, 2020: The GoCPS website, with refreshed content for the upcoming admissions cycle, will be available for families to start researching their options.
- October 12, 2020: The application opens for families to begin to apply.
- December 11: Deadline for families to submit their applications.
For more information, please visit go.cps.edu or contact the Office of Access and Enrollment at gocps@cps.edu or 773-553-2060.
We also recommend you reach out to https://chischoolgps.com for help with your school search (full disclosure- I am affiliated with it, but I am also not hard core on pushing services. We started it to help families save time and sanity!)
The first step is to make sure your nephew has an IEP. Through that process, students can get placed to schools that best serve their needs. Families can reject placements and ask for a new one, including another option that does not have to be his neighborhood school. Which schools have those services changes as the population within them with needs changes. In other words, once a child with needs graduates, that school may no longer have the in house services the next year. Services tend to follow a student, not necessarily the other way around. Not quite the most efficient way, so it could change.
Good question about the level of confidence but it currently has a banner above it that says “ATTENTION: The CPS School Locator has been updated for School Year 2020-2021.”
https://schoolinfo.cps.edu/schoollocator/index.html
The tiers do typically get updated by Oct. 1 each year, or when application season opens again, which so far is announced to be 10/12/20.
