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Originally Posted by moorhosj1
By trying to expand access to "great" schools (the 5 you mentioned), we have nearly eliminated "good" high schools (exception of Taft and LPHS)
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while i agree with your overall premise, the bolded isn't really true.
taft isn't really all that standout-ish ranking-wise, it's just an above average CPS boundary high school that middle class white people
will actually send their kids to because of comfortability reasons* (i believe it's the whitest boundary HS in the city, followed by lincoln park and amundsen).
but in terms of academic performance, it's in the same general ballpark as other northside boundary schools like senn, mather, amundsen, lakeview, etc.
for whatever reason, Schurz is ranked quite a fair bit behind those others (though the physical building is probably the most spectacular school in the city).
(*) and this is another major complicating factor in all of this. there are some very good CPS magnet high schools on the south and west sides like brooks, hancock, lindblom, and westinghouse (all of them rank ahead of LPHS, FWIW), but generally speaking, white parents won't send their kids to schools in those neighborhoods regardless of how good their academics might be.