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In the 1950s, the southwest side of Chicago needed a Catholic girls' school to serve a fast-growing population. In 1956 "the Academy" relocated once again. Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School and St. Xavier College opened in the fall of 1956 to serve secondary and post secondary women students respectively.
Chicago Public Schools were the most racial-ethnically separated among large city school systems, according to research by The New York Times in 2012, [47] as a result of most students' attending schools close to their homes. In the 1970s the Mexican origin student population grew in CPS, although it never exceeded 10% of the total CPS student ...
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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Chicago rapidly opened public elementary schools, for grades 1-8. By 1848 there were 8 teachers and 818 students. John Clark Dore , a Boston teacher and principal, became Chicago's first school superintendent in 1854, when there were 34 teachers and 3,000 students.
The school's chess team won the IHSA state championship six times (2010–2011, 2012–2013, 2013–2014, 2015–2016, 2018–2019, and 2020–2021). [25] Michelle Obama is the namesake of a 4.3 million dollar athletics complex opened in 2019. [26] Chicago Public Schools received funding for the complex through Tax Increment Financing (TIF). [27]
Inter-American Magnet School (IAMS; Spanish: Escuela Inter-Americana [1]) is a K-8 magnet school in Lake View, Chicago, Illinois. [2] [3] The oldest two-way bilingual school in the Midwestern United States, [4] it is a part of Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Children learn to speak, read and write fluently in Spanish and English.
Roald Amundsen High School is a public four-year high school located between the Ravenswood, Andersonville and Lincoln Square neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1929, Amundsen is a part of Chicago Public Schools district. The school is named for Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (1872–1928). In 2015, the school ...