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Currently there
are 7High Schools and 16 Elementary Schools located in the 3rd Ward
of which majority are at or below failing levels as recommended by the
Chicago Public School System and the Illinois Board of Education .
Public - High Schools
Young Women's
Leadership Charter School (2641 South Calumet Ave)
On December 15, 1999 the Chicago Board of Education awarded a charter
to the Young Women's Leadership Charter School of Chicago, the only
all-girls public school in the city. The granting of the charter was
the culmination of eighteen months of hard work by twenty-three women
who were determined to create a school which offers urban girls a college
preparatory education emphasizing math, science and technology, areas
where women, and particularly women of color, have long been seriously
underrepresented.
Two highly qualified
co-directors were hired: Mary Ann Pitcher, a veteran English teacher
and founder of FACETS, a small school-within-a-school at Harper High
School; and Margaret Small, who taught math at Dunbar and Lake View
High Schools and co-led a 3 year project to bring professional development
and exemplary math curriculum to high school math teachers throughout
Chicago. They went on to hire a teaching staff which shared the vision
and mission of the school.
An intense period of open houses and community meetings began to recruit
our first students: 75 sixth-graders and 75 ninth graders. On August
22, 2000, the Young Women's Leadership Charter School opened its doors.
Dunbar Vocational
Career Academy (3000 South King Drive)
Paul L. Dunbar Vocational Career Academy, named in honor of the noted
black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, is a Chicago public school serving
students throughout the city. Established as a trade school in 1942,
the current campus is an attractive, modern facility situated on 12
acres in the lakefront Douglas community. Like all CPS Career and Vocational
Schools, students must submit an application and are admitted based
on grades and test scores from 7th grade. Dunbar is a co-ed school with
approximately one-third of its students residing in the immediate neighborhood,
while remaining students travel from the north and south sides of the
city. Most of the students living in the immediate neighborhood reside
in public housing or one of three residential complexes. The school
building includes 17 vocational shops, four science labs, tutorial and
journalism labs, a media and computer resource center and a distance
learning lab. Students select one of the diverse vocational shops in
their sophomore year (see listing below). The curriculum for each shop
combines academics and real world experience culminating in employment
for some students after graduation.
Chicago Military
Academy - Bronzeville High School (3519 South Giles)
Chicago Military Academy-Bronzeville (CMAB) opened in 1999 as the first
Chicago public school comprehensive military academy for high school
students. It is a multicultural institution located in the Bronzeville
neighborhood on Chicago's near South Side, that accepts both male and
female students from throughout the city based on application, test
scores, grades and letters of recommendation. Several hundred students
apply each year and only 150 are accepted. CMAB is committed to academic
excellence through sound principles and practices coupled with a comprehensive
military leadership education and training program. The Academy has
a mandatory JROTC instructional component and a required four-year college
preparatory curriculum, emphasizing Language Arts, Mathematics, Science
and Technology. The staff believes that each cadet has a right to learn
in a disciplined environment and to achieve their full potential supported
by the school, parents and community. The CMAB motto is "Building
Leaders … One Cadet at a Time."
Wendell Phillips
Academy High School (244 East Pershing Road)
Wendell Phillips Academy High School is a Chicago public school located
in the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago's Near South Side. Phillips
works under the belief that all children can learn and that it takes
the entire school and community to ensure student achievement and success.
Phillips provides a positive learning environment for all students with
a rigorous academic curriculum that promotes literacy, social well being,
critical thinking and inquiry-based learning. The school will celebrate
its 100-year anniversary in June 2004. Most students come from within
the attendance area, although a handful from other parts of the city
are admitted by application for the Options for Knowledge and JROTC
programs.
Jean Baptiste
Point DuSable High School (4934 South Wabash Ave)
Jean Baptiste Point DuSable High School is a Chicago public school with
a student population of 443 students, all African American and all from
the surrounding attendance area. Approximately 83 % of students are
classified as low-income and 28 % of students are disabled. First opened
in 1935 in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood on the city's South Side,
DuSable is transitioning to two small schools that are slated to open
in September 2005. The average attendance rate is 84 %, the mobility
rate is 36 %, the graduation rate is 55.1 %, the one year ISBE (Illinois
State Board of Education) dropout rate is 14.1 % and the truancy rate
is 10 %. DuSable is a Peace Power School, employing a research-based
strategy that can dramatically reduce youth violence, strengthen communities
and shape a successful future. Peace Power members include students,
parents, faculty and staff members.
Ada S. McKinley
- Lakeside (2929 South Wabash)
Public
- Elementary Schools
Wells Preparatory
Elementary School 244 East Pershing Road
200 Students Enrolled
Raymond Elementary
School 3663 South Wabash
496 Students Enrolled
Mayo Elementary
School 249 East 37th Street
500 Students Enrolled
Donoghue Elementary
School 707 East 37th Street
200 Students Enrolled
Donoghue Child
Parent Center 707 East 37th Street
100 Students Enrolled
Overton Elementary
School 221 East 49th Street
500 Students Enrolled
Overton Child
Parent Center 4935 South Indiana
115 Students Enrolled
Mollison Elementary
School 4415 South King Drive
475 Students Enrolled
McCorkle Elementary
School 4421 South State Street
300 Students Enrolled
Hartigan Elementary
Community Arts School 8 West Root Street
600 Students Enrolled
Farren Elementary
School 5055 South State Street
300 Students Enrolled
Doolittle West
Elementary School 521 East 35th Street
608 Students Enrolled
Beethoven Elementary
School 25 West 47th Street
700 Students Enrolled
Stephen A. Douglas
Community Academy 3200 South Calumet Ave
950 Students Enrolled
Drake Elementary
School 2722 South King Drive
450 Students Enrolled
Private
- High Schools
De La Salle Institute (3434 South Michigan Ave)
Brother Adjutor of Mary founded De La Salle Institute in 1889. Named
for the Founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools the school
has grown from a two-year commercial school to a four year college preparatory
school. Students from throughout Chicago and approximately 20 surrounding
suburbs attend De La Salle. They come from all ethnic, racial, economic
and religious groups: 49 percent Caucasian, 33 percent African-American,
16 percent Hispanic-American, 2 percent Pacific Asian-American, 24%
non-Catholic.
On June 1, 1888,
the State of Illinois issued a charter incorporating the school as a
degree-granting institution. The cornerstone was laid May 19, 1889,
at the corner of 35th and Wabash.
Brother Adjutor
foresaw a school for poor and working class boys. He is quoted as saying:
"I made up my mind to leave nothing undone in the direction of
fitting the boys of the masses for the battle of life, morally as well
as educationally." The classes in 1892 did not discriminate on
religious grounds: two of the first nine students were Jewish. This
philosophy of nondiscrimination has guided De La Salle throughout the
20th Century.
In 1985, De La Salle
was given national recognition through its designation as an "Exemplary
School" by the United States Department of Education. Only 65 private
schools of the 6,000 in the country were honored with this award.
De La Salle Institute
seeks the student who is interested in a quality education while furthering
the development of such ideals as traditional and moral values. This
relationship between the humanities and traditional education embraces
the school's guiding principle.
De La Salle Institute
is committed to the education of an integrated student population, a
reflection of the composition of the Chicago community. De La Salle
is aware of the importance of a college degree to the future of our
students. Currently, nearly 85 percent of our graduates pursue college
studies. An Honors Program geared to superior students offers accelerated
courses.
In the fall of 2002,
De La Salle added another chapter to its rich legacy of excellence in
the field of secondary education by opening a campus for young women
in collaboration with the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of
St. Francis at 1040 W. 32nd Place in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood.
By creating the
Lourdes Hall facility in conjunction with the main campus that has existed
since 1889, De La Salle enjoys the distinction of becoming the only
high school in the United States to offer a high-quality education to
both young men and young women in separate single-gender environments.
Private
- Elementary Schools
Holy Angels Elementary School (545 East Oakwood Blvd)
School
Closures
Currently the following schools will soon be closed due to declining
enrollment. Full-time teachers at the affected schools would be placed
in the reassigned teachers' pool, where they would receive full pay
and benefits for 10 months while they substitute teach and look for
another position.
Doolittle
West (608 student enrollment) students will attend Doolittle East (student
enrollment)
Douglas
students will attend Drake (450 student enrollment), 2722 S. King Dr.,
or Mayo (500 student enrollment) , 249 E. 37th St.
Hartigan
and Raymond students will attend Attucks, 3813 S. Dearborn.
http://www.ywlcs.org/learning/learnbackhistory.html
http://www.cps.k12.il.us/schools/hsdirectory/schools/dunbar_vocational.shtml
http://www.cps.k12.il.us/schools/hsdirectory/schools/chicago_military.shtml
http://www.cps.k12.il.us/schools/hsdirectory/schools/Phillips.shtml
http://www.cps.k12.il.us/schools/hsdirectory/schools/dusable.shtml
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