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No, I am not wrong. “Rounds of offers” is for Selective Enrollment schools and comes from OAE automatically based on a student’s application info. Waitlisting happens with magnet/choice schools and is a rolling admissions process that is managed by individual schools also automatically based on the applications submitted back in December. There could be unfilled seats in less desirable schools that merit another application event, but this doesn’t seem to be the original poster’s question. So, please kindly advise what dates I might have failed to mention that would demand a parent’s action.
“I’m assuming at the very least, you only go on to the next rounds if you don’t accept an offer to any school.”
Of course.
“And from what you are saying, it sounds like there is no deadline for registration to neighborhood schools. Is there any incentive to register early in case any of the SEES schools don’t pan out.”
Indeed, no deadline. You will do your neighborhood school a favor – for planning purposes – by registering early. To study there is your child’s right.
“I know there are 2nd and 3rd rounds where they could possibly still get in. What is the process for that? Are there also principal decisions similar to HS?”
Nothing you can do. Just wait for the call or email that may or may not come.
“Is there anything that needs to be done for neighborhood school enrollment if you are planning to use it as a backup?”
Just register there anytime you like, but not after you take a desirable SE/choice offer.
“Are you also aware that in WP this year at least 47.5% of kids scored enough to be considered perfect? ” – This is an excellent example of the problem created by CPS scoring. Too many kids gained a false notion of their being perfect, while in reality they could have gotten a fair number of questions wrong in the exam.
Exactly. There was a study from UofC a couple of years ago showing that SEHSs don’t help much academically for the prepared or “good” students. It’s the safety there above all other reasons that attracts like-minded families.
Selective enrollment admissions are centrally processed by OAE. Schools can’t decide if they want more or fewer students from one tier or another. All is up to the applicant pool each of them receives. Some schools have more even distributions among the tiers mainly because they are located close to both Tier 1/2 and Tier 3/4 neighborhoods. And these tend to be gifted centers, probably because their test is not as easy to prep as classical schools’.
Exactly. Because of Chicago’s residential geography, balancing the tiers or races within individual schools is impossible without prohibitively larger funding in bus services to expand and improve them. The previous CPS leadership, which was mostly African American, strove to build up Selective Enrollment equity at the district level by opening new programs in lower-tier communities. They knew that most students couldn’t and shouldn’t commute too far between home and school.
This looks like an attempt to reduce the share of Tiers 4 and 3 students from 60+% to 50% at the most desirable SE schools/programs. Given the numbers, it would be hard to mount a counter-argument, even if a racial balancing intention can be proved.
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”.
Very likely the percentile scores were locally ranked, given how hard the math part was in the exam.
Top students at Jackson A should have no problem getting into those high schools. Academic centers are harder to predict. Anyway, you won’t gain much academic-wise by moving to a suburban public school, so it’s basically up to other considerations. Meanwhile, supplementing can make a big difference.
No transfers to these schools. You can apply for open seats at RGCs and classicals. Academic centers are not open for 8th grade admissions.
