School Experience & Learning Environment

Does my child feel safe and supported?

How safe students say they feel, how connected they are to the adults around them, and what the school puts in place to support them — from counselors to curriculum.

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How students are doing

When something goes wrong, how does the school respond?

Discipline numbers show how often a school sends students home, and for how long. They aren't a report card on the students — schools that build strong relationships usually resolve conflict without suspensions. Look at the trend, not a single year.

Data through SY2024-25

Out-of-school suspensions per 100 students

0.5

suspensions for every 100 students · SY2024-25

All Chicago elementary schools

What is this?

This counts suspensions, not students — one student can be suspended more than once. If a school has 500 students and this number is 2, that's about 10 suspensions across the whole year.

Year by year

SY2023-24

0.1

SY2023-24

0.1

SY2024-25

0.5

SY2024-25

0.5

Misconducts that led to a suspension

3.1%

of reported incidents ended in an out-of-school suspension · SY2024-25

All Chicago elementary schools

What is this?

Of all reported behavior incidents, the share that ended with a student being sent home. A lower share usually means the school responds in other ways first — a conversation, a restorative circle, or an in-school step.

Year by year

SY2023-24

0.9%

SY2023-24

0.9%

SY2024-25

3.1%

SY2024-25

3.1%

Average length of a suspension

1.5

school days out, per suspension · SY2024-25

All Chicago elementary schools

What is this?

When a student is suspended, this is how many school days they are out on average. Shorter is generally better — students keep learning and stay connected.

Year by year

SY2023-24

SY2024-25

1.5

SY2024-25

1.5

The dashed grey line is the one figure we calculate ourselves — an enrollment-weighted average across the district-run schools that serve the same grades. Charter and contract schools aren't in it, because CPS only reports suspensions for district-run schools.

What the school provides

Do students feel safe, known and encouraged?

Every spring, CPS students and teachers take the University of Chicago's 5Essentials survey. These six measures sit under its "Supportive Environment" heading — the closest thing we have to asking every student how school actually feels.

Data through SY2024-25

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What the school provides · Student voice

What students actually said.

The exact questions from the 5Essentials survey, and how this school's students answered them — next to students across all of CPS. Each bar shows favorable responses on the left (darker) and less favorable responses on the right (lighter).

Data through SY2024-25

Safety

Students report how safe they feel:

Outside around the school?

This school

All CPS

In your classes?

This school

All CPS

In the hallways of the school?

This school

All CPS

In the bathrooms of the school?

This school

All CPS

Student-Teacher Trust

Students report:

My teachers always keep their promises.

This school

All CPS

My teachers treat me with respect.

This school

All CPS

I feel safe with my teachers at this school.

This school

All CPS

I feel comfortable with my teachers at this school.

This school

All CPS

My teachers always listen to students' ideas.

This school

All CPS

What the school provides · Curriculum

Is the day-to-day schoolwork high quality?

CPS reviews the curriculum each school uses, subject by subject, and rates whether it meets the district's quality bar. Many subjects are still in the review queue.

Data through SY2025-26

CPS uses a few different rating words depending on the subject — "High Quality," a simple "Yes/No," or "Fully / Partially / Not Meeting." Green chips are the strongest rating, amber means the materials fell short, and grey means not yet reviewed.

Grades K-2

ELA High Quality
ELA High Quality
ELA Foundational Skills High Quality
ELA Foundational Skills High Quality
Math High Quality
Math High Quality
Science High Quality
Science High Quality
Social Science Not High Quality
Social Science Not High Quality
World Language French Not Yet Rated
World Language French Not Yet Rated

Grades 3-5

ELA Not Yet Rated
ELA Not Yet Rated
ELA Foundational Skills Not Yet Rated
ELA Foundational Skills Not Yet Rated
Math High Quality
Math High Quality
Science High Quality
Science High Quality
Social Science Not Yet Rated
Social Science Not Yet Rated
World Language French Not Yet Rated
World Language French Not Yet Rated

Grades 6-8

ELA Not Yet Rated
ELA Not Yet Rated
Math Not High Quality
Math Not High Quality
Science High Quality
Science High Quality
Social Science Not High Quality
Social Science Not High Quality
World Language French High Quality
World Language French High Quality

"Not Yet Rated" means the district's review hasn't reached that subject yet — it is not a bad mark. This rating looks at the curriculum materials a school has chosen — whether they are aligned to grade-level standards and rigorous — not how well teachers deliver them or how students score. Think of it as a check on the textbooks and lesson plans, not the teaching. Ratings appear here exactly as CPS publishes them.

Source

CPS School Profiles (behavior and curriculum quality) and the University of Chicago 5Essentials Survey (climate measures and student responses).

Coverage

Data through SY2024-25. We show every year the public source reports back to SY2017-18.

How to read this page

Every number is shown exactly as CPS or UChicago Impact published it. The one line we calculate ourselves is the dashed "schools like this one" overlay on the discipline charts — an enrollment-weighted average of that same published number across the district-run schools serving the same grades (charter and contract schools aren't included, because CPS only reports suspensions for district-run schools). Survey measures run on a 1-to-99 scale and use the survey's own five-color rubric; counts and rates come straight from the school's profile pages.

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