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Staff & Organizational Quality

Are the teachers and leaders effective?

Teacher quality, leadership and instructional coherence.

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What the school provides · Effective teachers

Do teachers here work as a team?

Every spring, CPS teachers answer the 5Essentials survey about their own school. These five measures describe whether teachers here work as a real team — shown one by one, exactly as published.

Each spoke is one of the five teacher measures. The colored rings show what score range it falls in — dark red near the center means a weak score, dark green at the edge means very strong. The school's polygon sits on top; a dashed outline shows the comparison group.

What the school provides · Effective leadership

Is the leadership steady and trusted?

The same survey asks teachers about their principal: whether leadership sets high standards, keeps programs steady, and earns teachers' trust. Four measures, straight from the source.

Each spoke is one of the four leadership measures. The colored rings show what score range it falls in — dark red near the center means a weak score, dark green at the edge means very strong. The school's polygon sits on top; a dashed outline shows the comparison group.

What the state reports · Teacher & leadership quality

Teacher and leadership stability, by the numbers.

ISBE publishes school-by-school data on teacher attendance, teacher evaluations, how many teachers are new to the profession, and how many principals a school has had in six years. These numbers come straight from the state report card.

Source · Illinois State Board of Education annual report card bulk data. Most recent year available: SY2024-25.

What the school provides · People & resources

Who works in the building, and how it's funded.

SY2025-26 only — CPS publishes one year at a time

CPS publishes how every school is staffed and funded: which positions the district guarantees, and what the school chose to add with its flexible budget. Counts and dollars below appear exactly as CPS lists them.

Class-size signal · SY2025-26 · Current year only
25.5 students for every core classroom teacher
22.1 CPS average
3.4 above district

Computed from two CPS-published numbers: 843 students (Fall 20th-day enrollment) divided by 33 district-provided core classroom teachers.

This counts only the teachers CPS funds directly — schools often add more with flexible funds, so real classes may be smaller.

Teacher retention · SY2025-26 · Current year only
1 / 5

Low retention — bottom fifth of CPS schools

1 = lowest · 5 = highest · CPS median is 3

CPS publishes this as: “1/5 (higher than 13.3% of high schools)”

As part of its Opportunity Index, CPS ranks every school from 1 to 5 on the share of teachers who stayed from one year to the next. A higher rank means more teachers stayed, compared with other schools of the same type. CPS distributes these rankings so roughly the same number of schools fall in each band — rank 3 is the district median by design. We show the ranking exactly as CPS publishes it.

Teaching positions CPS funds

Teacher positions the district pays for directly at this school — the guaranteed core of the staff.

Core classroom teachers
33
Core classroom teachers
33
Holistic teachers physical education arts music world language etc for elementary schools
7
Holistic teachers physical education arts music world language etc for elementary schools
7

Leadership & student-support positions

The foundational adults CPS guarantees every school: principal, assistant principal, counselors and more.

Assistant principal
1
Assistant principal
1
Principal
1
Principal
1
School assistants
1
School assistants
1

Special education staff

Teachers, paraprofessionals and case managers who support students with IEPs.

Special education paraprofessionals incl bilingual paraprofessionals
7
Special education paraprofessionals incl bilingual paraprofessionals
7
Special education teachers
8
Special education teachers
8

Program-specific positions

Staff tied to particular programs this school runs, like bilingual services or IB.

Bilingual coordinators
1
Bilingual coordinators
1

Positions funded from school accounts

Staff paid out of the school's own internal accounts, such as fundraising.

School internal account funded non teacher positions
1
School internal account funded non teacher positions
1
School internal account funded teacher positions
4
School internal account funded teacher positions
4

Day-to-day operations

Lunchroom, security and other supports that keep the building running.

Lunchroom
2
Lunchroom
2
School security
2
School security
2
School-directed spending

What the school added with flexible funds

Positions and dollars the principal chose to buy with the school's flexible budget.

Assistant principals
1
Assistant principals
1
Clerks
1
Clerks
1
Counselors
2
Counselors
2
Funding for non staff costs
$272,176
Funding for non staff costs
$272,176
Technology coordinators
1
Technology coordinators
1

Teacher-training funds

Dollars earmarked for coaching and instructional support for teachers.

Tiered instructional support dollars Tier I
$17,280
Tiered instructional support dollars Tier I
$17,280
Source

5Essentials Survey, UChicago Impact (teacher-reported measures); CPS School Profile, Staffing & School Resourcing page; ISBE Annual Report Card bulk data (teacher attendance, teacher evaluation, novice teachers, principal turnover).

Coverage

Data through SY2025-26. We show every year the public source reports back to SY2017-18.

How to read this page

Every score on this page is shown exactly as published — we never blend measures into our own averages. The one computed figure, students per core classroom teacher, divides two published numbers and says so on the card.

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