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A wonderful piece of information for my curiosity! For Chicago address as you might already well know, CPS uses census data to calculate 6-factor scores and use their secret formula to get the final score to assign each Chicago address a tier. CPS never publishes their tier calculation details and formula. But by reverse engineering, some genius people found a formula which generates nearly identical tier results. Their calculation can be found here http://cpstiers.opencityapps.org/tier-calculation.html . Among these six factors, the median income correlates most closely to the tier determination; the other five factors have minor effects but not negligible. Glad to learn for non-Chicago address, they simplify the tier assignment.
read this post last year when we were preparing for moving to chicago from another state due to job change. considering northside and payton, but had no idea what tier we belonged to since we were still living in another state at the time of application. googled and found this post. still not sure so called CPS twice and got different answers each time. one said we would be assigned a tier based on our out of state address. Not too surprising because CPS uses public census data and their own formula to assign a tier to each CPS applicant. It would be very easy to do so for any applicant and address anywhere in the US. I thought I would find out what tier we belonged to after the SEHS test and final outcome. Still don’t know it becasue my DD got high enough score to qualify for either northside or payton through rank. we finally went to DD’s first choice, northside because of the proximity to our then prospective and current chicago residence. But still wondering how exactly CPS tiers out of state address or non-chicago address.
Also received welcome email from Northside this morning.
Freshman Welcome Night on Monday, April 8 at 6:30 pmMarch 30, 2018
Dear XXXX XXXX,
Congratulations on your acceptance to Northside College Preparatory High School! This opportunity to join talented students from all over the city serves as recognition of your hard work and academic achievement. On behalf of the faculty, staff, students, and parents of Northside, welcome Class of 2023.
In the coming week, you will receive an NCP welcome packet in the mail that contains additional information. In the meantime, please mark your calendars for our Freshman Welcome Night on Monday, April 8 at 6:30 pm. During this informative evening, you will hear about the school’s mission and vision, as well as receive an overview of our academic, athletic, and extracurricular programs.
Finally, please note the CPS Office of Access and Enrollment deadline to accept or decline your offer to Northside is Friday, April 12, 2019. If you applied online, you will accept or decline your offer via your online application account. If you applied via paper application, you can accept or decline your offer by either by submitting the paper confirmation form you received from the Office of Access and Enrollment or by using the online application account that was opened for you.
To use the online application site, go to go.cps.edu, click ‘Log In’ and log in with your username and password. Click ‘View 2019-2020 Application Results’ on your Student Dashboard, then click ‘Make Decisions on Offers and Waitlists.’ Under ‘Offers,’ click ‘Accept’ next to the name of our school to accept the offer. When you click ‘Accept,’ any other offers you received will be automatically declined. If you wish to decline the offer, click ‘Decline’ next to the name of our school. Click ‘Next’ to confirm your decision and click ‘Submit.’ It is your responsibility to either accept or decline the offer by 11:59 p.m. (CST) on Friday, April 12, 2019.
To submit a paper confirmation form, complete the Confirmation Form that is included with your notification letter, and enter the name of the school and program where you are accepting the offer. Ensure that your parent/guardian signs the form, and submit the form to the Office of Access and Enrollment.
If you do not accept or decline an offer by the April 12th deadline, the offer will be forfeited. For additional information, please reference your notification from the Office of Access and Enrollment.
Again, congratulations on your acceptance to Northside! I look forward to meeting you and your parents on Monday, April 8.
Kelly L. Mest, Principal
Northside College Preparatory High School
Barry R. Smith, Jr. – assistant principal
Northside College Preparatory High School
5501 N. Kedzie
Chicago, IL 60625
773.534.3955Agreed. Both demographic and geographic factors play huge roles. Well-off families living around Lincoln Park prefer sending kids to nearby Payton rather than far north Northside. This preference has been exacerbated by CPS’s switch from race based system to socioeconomic one a decade ago.
Anyone can tell me why, in recent years, Payton starts to attract more high scorers than Northside? Is there anything changed dramatically? Looking through the cutoff scores, Payton beats Northside in all 4 tiers and rank which was not seen several years ago. Anyone has insights?
Thank! It’s extremely helpful. We’ll try our best to attend. Congratulations to everyone being accepted to their dream schools!
