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Received an Academic Center offer for Whitney Young.
Tier 2
Point Total: 579
School ranked #1 on application
I guess if you’ve already selected “View Results and Options” there is no way to get back to any page that allows you to view “Student Details.”
I went back to cps.edu and signed into GoCPS again and was able to find “Student Details” from there.
Tier 2 is the high value homes and Tier 3 is the low value homes. I do not believe that the 59% estimated median family income is correct.
Tier: 2 3
Estimated Median Family Income: 49% 59%
Educational Attainment Score: 21% 16%
Single Parent Households: 31% 73%
Owner Occupied Homes: 95% 96%
Speak a Language other than English: 13% 11%
IAR Performance: 51% 51%
6 Factor Socioeconomic Score: 43% 51%Another attempt 😭
Sorry, the table formatted badly, and when I try to fix it, the website is telling me my message is spam lol. The stats are below the words, not above them.
Owner occupied % is basically the same for each (95 and 96). And there is no way that people living in $250-350k+ houses make less than people living in 100-150k houses (as the stats indicate). The “Tier 2” high value homes have 31% single family households while the “Tier 3” low value homes have 73% single family households.
I am not able to edit my post, but wanted to clarify that in the table, “HIGH VALUE HOUSES” are Tier 2 and “LOW VALUE HOUSES” are Tier 3.
Also, these houses are not outliers, all the surrounding houses are similar. The Tier 2 section is safer and more well off than the Tier 3 section. The Tier 3 section has less favorable socioeconomic stats aside from the “estimated median family income,” which I do not believe is accurate.
I’m so sorry, it is so unfair. At this point, maybe they need to rank each family individually based on their income/personal stats 😥 That would probably be too much work to be feasible, but it doesn’t seem like tiers always work the way they are meant to work (and I question the accuracy of the underlying data itself).
Thank you for the confirmation! I thought I was losing my mind that we were in Tier 3 when I last checked 😅
This is so frustrating and I’m sorry that your family is dealing with this. It’s definitely strange timing to update tiers in the middle of the application process. I hope that your daughter is still able to make it into Jones, but even if she doesn’t, that it all works out for the best and she has a wonderful experience and great education wherever she ends up.
Thanks for sharing! It’s interesting that they have two slightly different websites with the Tier maps. Seems like one is within the general CPS website and the other is within GoCPS. They appear to have all the same information, but the general CPS website map seems more user friendly to me (easier to zoom in and out and do other things).
But what if the tiebreaker is between two (or more) kids who got 900’s and got 99 percentile on every single one of the sections? I mean they aren’t going to just flip a coin right?
What I mean is maybe we will never see the raw scores ourselves, but they can see them for the purposes of tiebreaking.
Thank you so much for sharing! I had been assuming that the kids in the 99 percentile were basically getting 100% on the test, so it’s good to know that’s not the case. Even if we assumed a cogAT score of 140/160, that’s much more attainable than 160/160 😅.
I recall a post on this forum stating that there were kids with a perfect 900 score who didn’t get accepted to Payton HS last year. I was confused how they could tie-break in these situations, but it makes more sense to realize one “99 percentile” child may have had a raw score of 95% while another “99 percentile” child had a raw score of 88%…
