5
Number of years above grade level our 8th graders score in "reading," according to the national Terra Nova tests.
#1
Our ranking compared to peers in a recent PEJE Parent Survey in the topic "critical thinking."
84%
of the graduates who applied to CPS Selective Enrollment High Schools were admitted to their 1st choice in the last 15 years.
6th grader publishes poetry
How did 6th grader Joseph Vadnai (Jo-Jo) end up writing poetry, especially poetry that is good enough to get published? Particularly when he has struggled with reading? He says he was inspired by classical music. "Music is wordless; poetry lets me use my own words, but it's linked to music.," he explains. He has written reams of poems and, after doing that for a while, he wanted to "let people see my poems," so he began looking for outlets. He's been, of course, published in our school newspaper, The Globe, but he searched for other opportunities and stumbled upon the American Library of Poetry. "I submitted to their contest because they said they would publish you even if you didn't win." And published he was! Read more here.
6th grader publishes poetry
How did 6th grader Joseph Vadnai (Jo-Jo) end up writing poetry, especially poetry that is good enough to get published? Particularly when he has struggled with reading? He says he was inspired by classical music. "Music is wordless; poetry lets me use my own words, but it's linked to music.," he explains. He has written reams of poems and, after doing that for a while, he wanted to "let people see my poems," so he began looking for outlets. He's been, of course, published in our school newspaper, The Globe, but he searched for other opportunities and stumbled upon the American Library of Poetry. "I submitted to their contest because they said they would publish you even if you didn't win." And published he was! Read more here.
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