Hyde Park Cps Schools

Hyde Park Academy

CPS is the third largest school district in America. This puts a lot of pressure for their administration to do well. This pressure has seemingly caused the board of CPS to almost fall through. As only 5% of all students in Chicago's lowest-performing high schools met state standards. Students at Chicago’s lowest-performing high schools drop out at nearly 12 times the rate of average Illinois students – 36 percent compared to 3 percent, respectively. According to the 2009 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, adults age 25 and older who dropped out of high school or had not earned a GED earned up to 41 percent less than those who had. The CPS schools are basically setting up Chicago students to fail.
Bret Harte Elementary School

A majority of students attending the lowest 10 percent of elementary schools and high schools in Chicago don’t have basic competence in reading, science, and math. They’re significantly behind their peers in almost every respect. And success in school is a direct link to success later in life with more steady employment, greater wages and higher self-confidence. Seventy-five percent of students at the lowest-performing elementary schools failed to meet standards on state exams. More than 20 percent of these students scored in the lowest category in reading, meaning they have a difficult time determining the main idea of a persuasive essay or the plot of a short story.