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Chicago Public Schools
Chicago Public Schools, commonly abbreviated as CPS by local residents and politicians and officially classified as City of Chicago School District #299 for funding and districting reasons, is a large school district that manages over 600 public elementary and high schools in Chicago, Illinois...

, abbreviated as CPS by local residents and politicians, is a large system of primary and secondary schools within Chicago's
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 city limits.

7-12 schools

No students are assigned to any of the following schools
  • Academy of Communications and Technology (ACT) Charter School School Website

Zoned schools

  • Amundsen
    Amundsen High School
    Roald Amundsen High School, is a public high school located at the corner of Damen and Foster Avenue in Chicago, Illinois in the United States. It is a part of Chicago Public Schools and has approximately 1,600 students, though its building was designed to house 1,300. It is a neighborhood high...

     School Website
  • Austin School Website
  • Bogan School Website
  • Bowen School Website
  • Bronzeville Scholastic Institute
    Bronzeville Scholastic Institute
    Bronzeville Scholastic Institute is a four year college preparatory high school, and part of the Chicago Public Schools network. It is located in the neighborhood of Bronzeville in Chicago, Illinois on the DuSable Campus, and shares a building with Daniel Hale Williams Preparatory School of...

     School Website
  • Calumet (became a charter school in 2007) School Website
  • Chicago Vocational High School
    Chicago Vocational High School
    Chicago Vocational High School is a public 4-year vocational high school serving students in the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It opened in 1940.The school was barely opened when the outbreak of World War II caused a change in plan...

     School Website
  • Clark School Website
  • Clemente
    Clemente High School
    Roberto Clemente Community Academy is a public secondary school located in the West Town community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.-Improvement:...

     School Website
  • Collins Academy School Website
  • Corliss
    Corliss High School
    George Henry Corliss High School is a public 4-year high school located in Pullman neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is part of the Chicago Public Schools. The school is named in the honor of engineer George Henry Corliss. The school's sports teams are nicknamed the Trojans...

     School Website
  • Crane School Website
  • Curie
    Curie Metropolitan High School
    Curie Metropolitan High School is a public 4-year magnet high school located in the Archer Heights neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The school has a Technical, Performing Arts, and International Baccalaureate Programme...

     School Website
  • Dunbar School Website
  • DuSable
    DuSable High School
    DuSable High School was a public high school in Chicago opened in the Bronzeville neighborhood in 1934. It was named after Chicago's first permanent non-native settler, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. DuSable was built to accommodate the growing Phillips High School in the 1930s. The campus was...

     School Website
  • Dyett School Website
  • Englewood School Website
  • Farragut Career Academy
    Farragut Career Academy
    Farragut Career Academy High School is a public 4-year high school located in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. As a Career Academy, Farragut emphasizes a curriculum that combines academic instruction with work-study experiences and vocational training...

     School Website
  • Christian Fenger Academy School Website
  • Foreman
    Foreman High School
    Edwin G. Foreman High School is a public 4-year high school located in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is operated by the Chicago Public Schools. The school was named in the honor of a Chicago banker and civic leader, Edwin G. Foreman...

     School Website
  • Gage Park
    Gage Park High School
    Gage Park High School is a public 4-year high school located in Gage Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, USA.It is part of the Chicago Public Schools Dist...

     School Website
  • Hancock
    Hancock High School
    Hancock Central High School is a public school located in Hancock, Michigan. Their current location in Hancock is at 501 Campus Drive .Their athletics teams are nicknamed the Bulldogs, who have a long-standing rivalry with their neighboring city of Houghton's teams, the Gremlins.The Bulldogs JV...

     School Website
  • Harlan School Website
  • Harper
    Harper High School (Chicago, Illinois)
    William R. Harper High School, is part of the Chicago Public School system. It serves the south side of Chicago, Illinois in the Englewood community. The school is named for William Rainey Harper. The majority of students are African American. Harper High School gained national attention when the...

     School Website
  • James Hedges
  • Hirsch School Website
  • Hope School Website
  • Hubbard School Website
  • Hyde Park Career Academy
    Hyde Park Career Academy
    Hyde Park Career Academy is a public 4-year high school located in the Woodlawn neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is a part of the Chicago Public Schools District 299.-Notable alumni:...

     School Website
  • Benito Juarez Community Academy
    Benito Juarez Community Academy
    Benito Juarez Community Academy, formerly Juarez High School, is a public high school of the Chicago Public Schools, located in the Pilsen neighborhood. It is named for Mexican President Benito Juárez....

  • Julian School Website
  • Kelly
    Thomas Kelly High School
    Thomas Kelly High School better known as Kelly High School is a public 4-year high school located in the Brighton Park neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois.It is the third largest populated high school in Chicago. Over 80% students identify as Hispanic....

     School Website
  • Kelvyn Park
    Kelvyn Park High School
    Kelvyn Park High School is a part of the Chicago Public Schools system in the Hermosa neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Situated at 4343 West Wrightwood Avenue, it is adjacent to nearby Kelvyn Park.-External links:...

  • Kennedy
  • Kenwood
    Kenwood Academy
    Kenwood Academy is a public 4-year high school located in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, USA. Kenwood Academy accepts high school students living in its attendance area: From Lake Michigan to Cottage Grove Avenue east to west, and 47th to the Midway Plaisance north to south...

     School Website
  • Lake View
    Lake View High School (Chicago, Illinois)
    Lake View High School is a public 4-year high school located in the Lake View neighborhood of Chicago,Illinois. It serves grades 9th through 12th. It is a part of the Chicago Public Schools District 299.-History:...

     School Website
  • Lincoln Park
  • Manley
  • Marshall
    John Marshall Metropolitan High School
    John Marshall Metropolitan High School is a public 4-year high school located on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It serves the students of the East Garfield Park, West Garfield Park, North Lawndale and Humboldt Park neighborhoods. Marshall's principal is Kenyatta Butler...

  • Mather
  • Morgan Park
    Morgan Park High School
    Morgan Park High School , located in Chicago, Illinois, at the intersection of 111th street and Vincennes Avenue is a public high school that opened its doors on its present site in 1916, as part of the Chicago Public Schools...

     School Website
  • North Grand School Website
  • Orr School Website
  • Phillips Academy Landmark Website
  • Prosser
    Prosser Career Academy
    Prosser Career Academy is a public vocational high school located in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It was opened in September 1959 for males only, adding females decades later. Prior to the summer of 1998 the school's name was Prosser Vocational High School...

     School Website
  • Richards
  • Paul Robeson School Website
  • Roosevelt School Website
  • Schurz
    Schurz High School
    Carl Schurz High School is a public secondary school located in the old section of the Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.This school is named after German–American Carl Schurz, a statesman, soldier, and advocate of democracy in Germany....

     School Website
  • Senn
    Senn High School
    Nicholas Senn High School is located on the North Side of Chicago in the Edgewater community. Senn High School was inaugurated in 1913.-Education:...

  • South Shore
    • School of Entrepreneurship
    • School of Leadership
    • School of Arts
    • School of Technology
  • Southside Occupational
  • Spalding
  • Steinmetz School Website
  • Sullivan
    Roger C. Sullivan High School
    Roger C. Sullivan High School is a high school located in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the many schools which is part of the Chicago Public Schools...

     School Website
  • Taft School Website
  • Tilden
  • Uplift School Website
  • Vaughn Occupational School Website
  • Von Steuben School Website
  • Washington
  • Wells Community Academy
    Wells Community Academy High School
    Wells Community Academy High School is a 4-year public high school located in the West Town neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Wells serves grades 9 through 12, and is a part of the Chicago Public Schools District 299...

     School Website
  • Westinghouse

Option high schools

  • Best Practice School Website
  • Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy
    Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy
    Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy is a public selective enrollment high school located in the Roseland area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is operated by Chicago Public Schools...

  • Carver Military Academy
    Carver Military Academy
    George Washington Carver Military Academy High School, formely known as George Washington Carver Area High School, is a public high school in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1947 as a mainstream high school, and began the transition into becoming a military academy in 2000...

     School Website
  • Chicago Agriculture
    Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences
    The Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences is a public secondary magnet school opened in 1985 by the Chicago Public Schools as a unique, experimental high school devoted to teaching agricultural science to urban students...

     School Website
  • Chicago High School for the Arts
    Chicago High School for the Arts
    The Chicago High School for the Arts offers a four-year college preparatory curriculum combined with intensive training in the performing and visual arts...

     School Website
  • Chicago Discovery School Website
  • CICS - Longwood School Website
  • CICS - Northtown Academy School Website
  • Chicago Military School Website
  • Chicago Vocational
    Chicago Vocational High School
    Chicago Vocational High School is a public 4-year vocational high school serving students in the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It opened in 1940.The school was barely opened when the outbreak of World War II caused a change in plan...

     School Website
  • DeVry Advantage Academy Grades 11-12, with college credit. School Information Website
  • Graham School Website
  • Jones School Website
  • King College Prep School Website
  • Lane
    Lane Technical College Prep High School
    Albert G. Lane Technical College Preparatory High School , is a public, four-year, magnet high school located on the north side of Chicago...

     School Website
  • Las Casas
    Las Casas Occupational High School
    Las Casas Occupational High School is an alternative high school located at 8401 South Saginaw Avenue in the South Chicago area of Chicago, Illinois, United States...

  • Lindblom School Website
  • Mose Vines Preparatory
  • Noble Street Charter High School
    Noble Street Charter High School
    Noble Street Charter High School is a public charter high school in Chicago with multiple campuses throughout the city:*Chicago Bulls College Prep *Gary Comer College Prep...

     School Website
  • Northside College Prep
    Northside College Preparatory High School
    Northside College Preparatory High School is a Chicago Public-Selective Enrollment School. Founded in 1999, it was the first new Chicago Public High School to be built in 20 years. It is a selective enrollment school, teaching at the Honors and AP levels only...

     School Website
  • Northside Learning Center
  • Payton School Website
  • Perspectives Charter School Website
  • Phoenix Military Academy School Website
  • Al Raby School for Community and Environment School Website
  • Hyman G Rickover Naval Academy school website
  • Simeon School Website
  • Simpson Academy School Website
  • West Town Academy
    West Town Academy
    West Town Academy has been a part of Greater West Town Community Development Project , a communitarian non-profit organization working toward development on the west side of Chicago, since 1992....

     http://www.westtownacademy.org
  • York Alternative
  • Whitney Young School Website
  • Youth Connection Charter School

Zoned K-8 A

Zoned K-8 B

Zoned K-8 C
  • Calhoun North
  • Daniel R. Cameron
  • Canty
  • Carroll/Rosenwald Specialty School School Website
  • George F. Cassell Elementary School

Zoned K-8 E

Zoned K-8 G

Zoned K-8 H

Zoned K-8 L


  • Abraham Lincoln School Website
  • Carl von LinnéSchool Website
  • Ted Lenart
    Lenart Regional Gifted Center
    Ted Lenart Regional Gifted Center is located in the southeast side of Chicago Chatham neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois Lenart School serves grades K-8 with a selective enrollment program for gifted students. The school is part of the Chicago Public Schools, CPS, system...

     School Website

Zoned K-8 M

Zoned K-8 P

Zoned K-8 R

Zoned K-8 S

Non-zoned K-8


7-8 schools


K-6 schools


Former High Schools

  • Academy of Communications and Technology- Closed in 2010, the school building at 4319 W. Washington Blvd, built in 1906 as St. Mel Catholic grade school, is now home to Chicago Talent Development High School
    Chicago Talent Development High School
    - Mission and Vision :The mission of Chicago Talent Development High School is to graduate all students prepared for success in college, career, and civic life....

    .

  • Calumet High School - Closed in 2006 to make way for the Perspectives Charter School, which currently occupies the building.

  • Central High School - Closed in 1882 due to declining enrollment. The fate of the building is unknown.

  • Collins High School - The building at 1313 South Sacramento Drive (inside Douglas Park) now houses both the Collins Academy High School and the North Lawndale College Prep Charter School.

  • Cooley Vocational High School
    Cooley Vocational High School
    Cooley Vocational High School was a public vocational high school in Chicago, Illinois, which served grades 7 through 12. It was part of Chicago Public Schools. It was adjacent to the Cabrini–Green housing development. It was named after Chicago Public Schools Superintendent, Edwin G...

     - (Subject of the film Cooley High
    Cooley High
    Cooley High is a 1975 American film based upon the real high school located on the near north side of Chicago produced and released by American International Pictures and written by Eric Monte...

    ) The school, located on the 800 block of West Scott Street, closed in 1979 when it was replaced by a newer high school nearby and was eventually razed. The area around the former school was zoned to nearby Lincoln Park High School.

  • Cregier Vocational High School - Closed at the end of the 1994-1995 school year. Cregier is now home to three smaller schools for special-needs children.

  • Englewood High School - Closed in 2008 due to poor performance; now houses the Urban Prep Charter Academy.

  • English High School - Renamed to Crane High School
    Crane High School (Illinois)
    Richard T. Crane Technical Preparatory High School, commonly known as Crane Tech Prep or Crane Tech High School, is a public high school in Chicago, Illinois. It is located at 2245 West Jackson Boulevard in Chicago's Near West Side community area....

     in 1905.

  • Forrestville High School - Renamed to King College Prep High School
    King College Prep High School
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. College Preparatory High School is a high school located in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood on Drexel Blvd., about one kilometer from Lake Michigan...

     in 1971.

  • Harrison Technical High School - Closed in 1983; now houses the Maria Saucedo Magnet Elementary School.

  • Harvard High School - Closed in 1962 due to declining enrollment; last used by St. George's School before the building was converted into condominiums and a family home.

  • Hibbard High School - Closed in 1927 when the nearby Roosevelt High School
    Theodore Roosevelt High School (Chicago)
    Theodore Roosevelt High School is a public secondary school in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The school began existence in 1922 as William G...

     was completed and students were sent there; remains in operation as an elementary school.

  • Jefferson High School - Closed in 1910 when the nearby Schurz High School
    Schurz High School
    Carl Schurz High School is a public secondary school located in the old section of the Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.This school is named after German–American Carl Schurz, a statesman, soldier, and advocate of democracy in Germany....

     was completed and students were sent there. The school was eventually razed and the Irish American Heritage Center was built on the site.

  • Kinzie High School - Renamed to Kennedy High School in 1965.

  • Lake High School - Renamed to Tilden Technical High School (Now the Tilden Career Community Academy) in 1915.

  • Lewis Institute High School - Closed in 1917; merged with Armour Institute of Technology in 1940 to form the present-day Illinois Institute of Technology
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.-granting university located in Chicago, Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design, and law...

    .

  • Loretto High School (Englewood) - Closed in 1962 due to declining enrollment, the fate of the building is unknown.

  • Manual High School - Renamed to University High School
    University High School
    -Canada:* University Hill Secondary School, Vancouver, British Columbia-Arizona:* University High School , Arizona* University High School , Arizona-California:* University High School , California...

     in 1904.

  • Medill High School

  • Metropolitan High School - Closed during the 1990s. The school's status, located on 160 block of West Wendell, is unknown.

  • Near North Career Metro High School
    Near North Career Metropolitan High School
    Near North Career Metropolitan High School was a public 4-year magnet high school located on Chicago's Near North Side. It was part of Chicago Public Schools...

     - Closed in 2001; the building still stands today but its use is unknown.

  • North Park University High School - Closed in 1969 due to declining enrollment and rising costs; now serves as an administration building for an adjacent college.

  • North Division/Waller High School - Renamed to Waller High School in 1899, and again to Lincoln Park High School in 1979.

  • Northwest Division/Tuley High School - Renamed to Tuley High School in 1906; closed in 1973 to make way for the new Clemente High School
    Clemente High School
    Roberto Clemente Community Academy is a public secondary school located in the West Town community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.-Improvement:...

    .

  • Parker High School - Opened in 1901; closed in 1977 and reopened as Paul Robeson High School (Illinois).

  • Cecil Partee
    Cecil A. Partee
    Cecil A. Partee was an Illinois African American legislator. He was the first black to serve both as President of the Illinois State Senate and Cook County's State Attorney. He was also Chicago Treasurer for three terms....

     Academic Preparatory Center - Occupied the old Hookway Elementary School.

  • Pullman Technical High School - Closed in 1950 due to budget constraints; continued to operate as a private school until 1997 when it was converted to the Brooks College Preparatory Academy.

  • South Division High School - Closed in 1905 and reopened as Phillips High School.

  • Tuley/Northwest Division High School - Closed in 1974 to make way for the new Clemente High School
    Clemente High School
    Roberto Clemente Community Academy is a public secondary school located in the West Town community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.-Improvement:...

    .

  • Waller/North Division High School - Renamed to Lincoln Park High School in 1979.

  • Washburne Trade School - Closed in 1993; reopened in 1994 as part of the City Colleges of Chicago before closing again in 1996. The culinary trade program continues as Washburne Culinary Institute of Kennedy-King College. Washburne school building at 3233 W. 31st St., built in 1910 as the Liquid Carbonic Co.
    Soda fountain
    A soda fountain is a device that dispenses carbonated drinks. They can be found in restaurants, concession stands and other locations such as convenience stores...

     factory and housing the school from 1958 until closing, was considered for landmark status as a Prairie School industrial building but suffered a fire in Feb. 2007 and was demolished by 2009. Converted to a vocational training school in 1919, Washburne was home to Chicago trade union apprentice programs, students earned a high school diploma at the same time.

  • Westcott Vocational High School - Renamed to Simeon Vocational High School in 1964.

  • (West Division) McKinley High School - Closed during the 1960s. The fate of the school is unknown.

  • Westinghouse Career Academy High School (#1) - Closed in 2009 to make way for a new Westinghouse High School on the 3300 block of West Franklin Blvd. The old school is scheduled for demolition.

Former elementary schools

  • Amelia Dunne Hookway School - Closed in 1981 due to underenrollment. A transitional high school for ninth graders, Cecil Partee
    Cecil A. Partee
    Cecil A. Partee was an Illinois African American legislator. He was the first black to serve both as President of the Illinois State Senate and Cook County's State Attorney. He was also Chicago Treasurer for three terms....

     Academic Preparatory Center was later housed in that same building. Partee was later relocated to Chicago Vocational Career Academy. In 1988, Lenart Regional Gifted Center
    Lenart Regional Gifted Center
    Ted Lenart Regional Gifted Center is located in the southeast side of Chicago Chatham neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois Lenart School serves grades K-8 with a selective enrollment program for gifted students. The school is part of the Chicago Public Schools, CPS, system...

     opened a selective admissions elementary school in that site.

  • Richard Wright Elementary School - Opened 1971 and closed 2004 due to fire.

  • Spry Elementary School - The building was converted into the Spry Community School.

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