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List of schools in Chicago Public Schools

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Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is a large public school district consisting of primary and secondary schools within the city limits of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois.

Schools

High schools

There are several types of high schools in the district, including neighborhood, career academy, charter, contract, magnet, military academy, selective enrollment, small and special education.

Alternative Learning Options (ALOP)

Bridgescape Schools

Bridgescape Academy Brainerd

Bridgescape Academy Humboldt Park

Bridgescape Academy Lawndale

Bridgescape Academy Roseland

Career and Technical Education (CTE)

Louisa May Alcott College Preparatory High School

Ace Amandla Charter High School

Amundsen High School*

Austin Community Academy High School*

Bogan High School*

Bowen High School*

Chicago Vocational Career Academy*

Roberto Clemente Community Academy*

Collins Academy High School

Curie Metropolitan High School*

Dunbar Vocational Career Academy

Dyett High School*

Farragut Career Academy*

Fenger Academy High School*

Foreman High School*

Gage Park High School*

Hancock High School

Harlan Community Academy High School*

Harper High School*

Hirsch Metropolitan High School*

Hyde Park Academy High School*

Jones College Prep High School

Benito Juarez Community Academy*

Julian High School*

Thomas Kelly High School*

Manley Career Academy High School*

John Marshall Metropolitan High School*

Mather High School*

North Grand High School*

Wendell Phillips Academy High School*

Prosser Career Academy

Al Raby High School

Richards Career Academy*

Roosevelt High School*

Carl Schurz High School*

Simeon Career Academy

Solorio Academy High School*

South Shore International College Preparatory High School

Roger C. Sullivan High School*

Uplift Community High School

George Washington High School

Wells Community Academy High School

George Westinghouse College Prep

Daniel Hale Williams Preparatory School of Medicine

Little Black Pearl Art and Design Academy

Charter

Acero Charter Schools

Major Hector P. Garcia MD

Victoria Soto

ASPIRA Charter Schools

ASPIRA Business and Finance

ASPIRA Early College High School

Chicago Collegiate Charter School

Chicago Math and Science Academy

Chicago International Charter School (CICS)

CICS ChicagoQuest North

CICS Ralph Ellison

CICS Longwood

CICS Northtown Academy

EPIC Academy Charter High School

Foundations College Preparatory Charter School

Institutio

Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy

Instituto - Justice Lozano

Intrinsic Charter School

Noble Network of Charter Schools

Baker

Butler

Chicago Bulls

Gary Comer

DRW

Golder

Hansberry

ITW Speer

Johnson

Mansueto

Muchin

Noble Academy

Noble Street

Pritzker

Rauner

Rowe-Clark

UIC

Perspectives Charter Schools

Urban Prep Academies

Youth Connection Charter School

Latino Youth High School

West Town Academy

Young Women's Leadership Charter School of Chicago

Citywide-Option

Peace & Education Coalition High School

Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative High School

Simpson Academy High School for Young Women

Consuella B. York Alternative High School

Contract

Chicago Excel Academy (Camelot charter)

Chicago High School for the Arts

Chicago Technology Academy

Little Black Pearl Art and Design Academy

International Baccalaureate (IB)

Amundsen High School

Back of the Yards College Preparatory High School

Benito Juarez Community Academy

Bogan High School

Bronzeville Scholastic Institute

Carl Schurz High School

Curie Metropolitan High School

Farragut Career Academy

George Washington High School

Hubbard High School

Hyde Park Academy High School

Kennedy High School

Lincoln Park High School

Morgan Park High School

Ogden International High School

Prosser Career Academy

Roberto Clemente Community Academy

Senn High School

South Shore International College Preparatory High School

Steinmetz College Prep

Thomas Kelly High School

Taft High School

Magnet

Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences

Michele Clark Magnet High School

Crane Medical Preparatory High School

Curie Metropolitan High School

DeVry University Advantage Academy - Grades 11-12, with college credit

Disney II Magnet High School

Harlan Community Academy High School (Engineering Program)

Senn High School (Fine and Performing Arts Program)

Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center

Military academies

Air Force Academy High School

Carver Military Academy

Chicago Military Academy

Marine Leadership Academy at Ames

Phoenix Military Academy

Rickover Naval Academy

Neighborhood

Amundsen High School*

Austin Community Academy High School*

Bogan High School*

Bowen High School*

Chatham Academy High School (no attendance boundaries)

Corliss High School*

Douglass Academy High School (no attendance boundaries)

Dyett High School*

Englewood Stem High School

Gage Park High School*

Harlan Community Academy High School*

Hirsch Metropolitan High School*

Infinity Math Science & Technology High School*

Hubbard High School*

Kelvyn Park High School*

Kennedy High School*

Kenwood Academy*

Lake View High School*

Lincoln Park High School*

Morgan Park High School*

North Grand High School*

Orr Academy High School*

Senn High School*

Solorio Academy High School*

Tilden High School*

George Washington High School*

Selective enrollment

George Westinghouse College Prep

Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy

John Hancock College Preparatory High School

Jones College Prep High School

King College Prep

Lane Technical College Prep High School

Northside College Preparatory High School

Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy

South Shore International College Preparatory High School

Walter Payton College Prep

Whitney M. Young Magnet High School

Small

Louisa May Alcott College Preparatory High School

Austin Community Academy High School

Bowen High School

Bronzeville Scholastic Institute

Chicago Academy High School

Collins Academy High School

Al Raby High School

TEAM Englewood Community Academy

Special education

Northside Learning Center High School

Ray Graham Training Center

Southside Occupational High School

Vaughn Occupational High School

Elementary/middle schools

Zoned Middle Schools

Albany Park Multicultural Academy

Evergreen Academy Middle School

Eugene Field Elementary School

Irene C. Hernandez Middle School for the Advancement of Science

Francisco I. Madero Middle School

Northwest Middle School

Robert J. Richardson Middle School

James Shields Middle School

Wendell E. Green Elementary School

Zoned 3-8

Joseph E. Gary School website

Zoned K-8

Zoned K-8 A

Jane Addams School website

Harriet Tubman School (formerly Louis A. Agassiz) website

Louisa May Alcott School website

Ira F. Aldridge School website

Ariel School (formerly Shakespeare) website

Phillip D. School Armour website

George Armstrong School website

Ashburn School website

Arthur R. Ashe School website

John J. Audubon School website

Avalon Park School website

Mariano Azuela School website

Zoned K-8 B

Alice L. Barnard School website

Clara Barton School website

Perkins Bass School website

Newton Bateman School website

Jean Baptiste Beaubien School website

Ludwig Van Beethoven School website

Jacob Beidler School website

Hiram H. Belding School website

"Alexander Graham Bell School". agbellschool.com. Archived from the original on October 5, 2002.

Belmont-Cragin School website

Frank I. Bennett School website

James G. Blaine School website

Carrie Jacobs Bond School website

Mosaic School of Fine Arts School (formerly Daniel Boone) website

Edward A. Bouchet School (formerly Bryn Mawr) website

Myra Bradwell School website

Joseph Brennemann School website

Lorenz Brentano School website

Norman A. Bridge School website

Orville T. Bright School website

Brighton Park School website

Ronald Brown School (formerly Samuel Gompers) website

William H. Brown School website

Milton Brunson School website

Lyman A. Budlong School website

Luther Burbank School website

Edmond Burke School website

Augustus H. Burley School website

Daniel Burnham School (formerly Luella) website

Jonathan Burr School website

John C. Burroughs School website

Michael M. Byrne School website

Zoned K-8 C

Charles P. Caldwell School website

Calmeca School website

Daniel R. Cameron School website

Marvin Camras School website

Arthur E. Canty School website

Lazaro Cardenas School website

Andrew Carnegie School website

Carroll/Rosenwald Specialty School website

Rachel Carson School (formerly Richards Vocational High School) website

William W. Carter School website

George Washington Carver School website

Pablo Casals School website

George F. Cassell School website

Willa Cather School website

Thomas Chalmers School website

Eliza Chappell School website

Salmon P. Chase School website

Cesar E. Chavez School website

Frederic Chopin School website

Walter S. Christopher School website

George Rogers Clark School website

Henry Clay School website

Grover Cleveland School website

DeWitt Clinton School, website

Henry R. Clissold School website

Johnnie Colemon School website

Edward Coles School website

Columbia Explorers Academy School website

Christopher Columbus School website

John W. Cook School website

John C. Coonley School website

Peter Cooper School website

Daniel J. Corkery School website

Mary E. Courtenay School (formerly Stockton) website

Sol R. Crown School website

Paul Cuffe School website

Countee Cullen School website

George W. Curtis School website

Zoned K-8 D

Richard J. Daley School website

Charles R. Darwin School website

Nathan S. Davis School website

Arthur Dixon Elementary School

Everett McKinley Dirksen School website

John C. Dore Elementary School website

Zoned K-8 E

Christian Ebinger, Sr. School website

John F. Eberhart School website

Zoned K-8 G

Frank L. Gillespie School website

Johann von Goethe School website

Virgil Grissom School website

Zoned K-8 H

Charles G. Hammond School website

Helen M. Hefferan School website

John Harvard School website

John Hay School website

Lionel Hampton Fine & Performing Arts School

Robert Healy School website

Zoned K-8 J

Edward Jenner Academy of the Arts

Zoned K-8 L

Abraham Lincoln School website Archived April 24, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

Carl von Linné School website

Zoned K-8 M

Arnold Mireles School website

George Manierre School website

Oscar Mayer School website

Donald L. Morrill School website

Zoned K-8 N

Louis Nettelhorst School website

Walter L Newberry Math & Science Academy website

Florence Nightingale School website

Zoned K-8 O

Ogden International School

Otis World Language Academy - It was established in 1880 as Armour Street School and became James Otis School in 1901. Mildred E. Chuchut served as principal from 1960 to 1962. At some point a petition circulated that stated that she caused damage to the morale there. It became James Otis World Language Academy in 2006.

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