Catalyst finds neighborhood high schools losing neighborhood kids

Catalyst, in a report issued earlier this week, noted that neighborhood high schools have fewer and fewer students from within their attendance area.

“Five years ago, no high school enrolled fewer than 20 percent of the students in its attendance area,” Catalyst notes. However “the flight from neighborhood school is the result of the district’s orchestrated policy to give students more choices.”

The interactive map shows declines in neighborhood enrollment in every Ravenswood school, and also those serving parts of the neighborhood.

• Mather currently enrolls 48 percent, down from 54 percent in 2006-7
• Sullivan currently enrolls 29 percent, down from 39 percent in 2006-7
• Senn currently enrolls 28 percent, down from 36 percent in 2006-7
• Roosevelt currently enrolls 43 percent, down from 51 percent in 2006-7
• Lake View currently enrolls 30 percent, down from 36 percent in 2006-7
• Amundsen currently enrolls 39 percent, down from 46 percent in 2006-7

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Related posts:

1. North Attendance Area High Schools report
2. Updated High School Report Card
3. Ravenswood and North Attendance elementary schools scorecard
4. DeVry increases profits as government looks at for-profit schools

Tags: Amundsen High School, Chicago, Chicago Public Schools, education, Illinois, Lake View, Mather High School, Roosevelt High School, Senn High School, Sullivan High School

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