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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.

This school has not reported behavior and discipline data yet. CPS publishes it on each school's profile page as it becomes available.

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?

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In your classes?

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In the hallways of the school?

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In the bathrooms of the school?

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Student-Teacher Trust

Students report:

My teachers always keep their promises.

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My teachers treat me with respect.

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I feel safe with my teachers at this school.

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I feel comfortable with my teachers at this school.

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My teachers always listen to students' ideas.

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School-Wide Future Orientation

Students report that:

Teachers make sure that all students are planning for life after graduation.

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Teachers work hard to make sure that all students are learning.

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High school is seen as preparation for the future.

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All students are encouraged to go to college.

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Teachers pay attention to all students, not just the top students.

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Teachers work hard to make sure that students stay in school.

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Expectations for Postsecondary Education

Teachers report that:

Teachers expect most students in this school to go to college.

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Teachers at this school help students plan for college outside of class time.

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The curriculum at this school is focused on helping students get ready for college.

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Most of the students in this school are planning to go to college.

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Teachers in this school feel that it is a part of their job to prepare students to succeed in college.

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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.

CPS hasn't published curriculum quality ratings for this school yet. Reviews are rolling out school by school.

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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