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CPS reported a student–teacher ratio of 15.84 for the 2019–20 school year. [4] For the 2020–21 school year, 46.7% of CPS students were Latino and 35.8% were African-American. [8] 63.8% of the student body came from economically-disadvantaged households, and 18.6% of students were reported as English-language learners. [8]
Dodge Elementary School - Now served as Chicago Public Schools, Garfield Park Office. Ana Roque De Duprey School - located at 2620 W Hirsch St.; voted to be closed in 2013. The Board of Education approved a sale to IFF Von Humboldt on Jul 22, 2015 for $3,100,000. Main building slated to become mixed-use community for teachers.
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In November 2019, the Chicago Public Schools decided to expedite the closing of Hope due to no student enrollment at the time. At the beginning of the 2019–2020 school year, Hope's entire student body had transferred to other schools within the area and district. [6] Hope officially closed on January 27, 2020.
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Opened in 2000, Payton is operated by the Chicago Public Schools district. The school is named for Walter Payton, African-American football player for the Chicago Bears and humanitarian. Since 2019, Payton has been ranked the No. 1 public high school in the State of Illinois, and No. 4 in the United States, by U.S. News & World Report. [3]
During the 2003–2004 school year, The Chicago Public Schools began phasing the school out, ordering the school to stop admitting new freshmen students. [10] The last graduations were held in June 2007 and the phase-out was completed by the end of summer, 2007.
As the school accepted students from all parts of Chicago rather than a single neighborhood, it was one of the few schools to provide an integrated education. The school changed its name and admission standards in the 1960s, resulting in a perceived decline in its prestige, and the opening of another nearby vocational school hurt its enrollment.