Friday, January 3, 2020

Uptown Public Schools Have Vacant Desks, With Uplift At Only 9% of Campus Capacity

CPS is losing enrollment, meaning that many schools are underutilized. Chalkbeat has released the exact figures, and this is how Uptown and adjacent area schools rate.

Grade Schools:
  • Brennemann Elementary School has 411 students enrolled, with capacity of 510. CPS says it's at 63% of "adjusted space utilization" (actual percent, 81%) and considers it to be "underutilized" in capacity.
  • Courtenay Language Arts Center has 359 students enrolled, with capacity of 750. CPS says it's at 35% of "adjusted space utilization" (actual percent, 48%) and considers it to be "underutilized" in capacity.
  • Disney Magnet School has 1,519 students enrolled, with capacity of 1,800. CPS says it's at 81% of "adjusted space utilization" (actual percent, 84%) and considers it to be "efficient" in capacity.
  • Goudy Technology Academy has 638 students enrolled, with capacity of 810. CPS says it's at 73% of "adjusted space utilization" (actual percent, 79%) and considers it to be "efficient" in capacity.
  • Greeley Elementary School has 489 students enrolled, with capacity of 480. CPS says it's at 94% of "adjusted space utilization" (actual percent, 102%) and considers it to be "efficient" in capacity.
  • McCutcheon Elementary School has 341 students enrolled, with capacity of 480. CPS says it's at 54% of "adjusted space utilization" (actual percent, 71%) and considers it to be "underutilized" in capacity.
High Schools:
  • Lake View High School has 1,296 students enrolled, with capacity of 1,368. CPS says it's at 93% of "adjusted space utilization" (actual percent, 95%) and considers it to be "efficient" in capacity.
  • Senn High School has 1,559 students enrolled, with capacity of 2,226. CPS says it's at 69% of "adjusted space utilization" (actual percent, 70%) and considers it to be "underutilized" in capacity.
  • Uplift High School has 123 students enrolled, with capacity of 912. CPS says it's at 9% of "adjusted space utilization" (actual percent, 13%) and considers it to be "underutilized" in capacity.
The Chalkbeat article mentions that Uplift is one of six schools operating at less than 10 percent of capacity. Uplift is the least occupied school on the North Side.

Citywide, 35 schools are considered overcrowded (operating at more than 110 percent of capacity), including Von Steuben on the Northwest Side, which is at 144 percent of capacity. 

3 comments:

  1. Da Mare has some tough choices to make. CPS keeps losing students. 6000 last year alone and that was after raising K and pre K numbers by accepting more students.

    Rahm screwed up when he closed schools. He should have closed more and then continued to close schools as necessary.

    I'm surprised Disney isn't at full capacity.

    There are two reasonable choices for Uplift.

    1. Close the school and let McCutcheon or some magnet school move into that building.

    2. Move Uplift and its outstanding program of Social Warrior Indoctrination into the Senn building--a school within a school.


    Da Mare shouldn't have given the teacher's such big pay raises without an understanding on the necessity of closing many schools. It was a lost opportunity.

    Here's a story about the overall enrollment losses. I refuse to hyperlink and an Iranian commando is trying to target me as I walk to the weed shop over on Clark street.

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  2. Oops. Here's the story.

    https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-cps-chicago-public-schools-enrollment-decline-20191108-u7qkibaptnb7ljyob3frclgldy-story.html

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  3. I work as a sub in the n'side schools. First, the city should build new 21st century schools instead of operating some of the ones existing. They are decrepit. Some schools don't have teacher lounges where teachers can eat lunch. Some have bad plumbing and it patches repairs, like walls. New Schools are badly needed. Tear down Uplift and rebuild on the site. That will draw the students.
    As for the decline...it's not just that students and families are moving out of Chicago....women are having fewer babies. Plus, the public schools have to compete with the private schools. There are a lot of private schools on the n' side, from Montesori to the British Schools. The best are going to those schools, as parents are sacrificing to get them into those schools.
    The mayor will not close those schools. She made a pact with CTU. Maybe next term she'll close the schools, but not this time.
    The parents who are demanding that the underutilized, low enrollment schools remain open (along w/ CTU) are at fault. .

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