Determinants of Educational Success Among Students in Chicago Public Schools

Welcome to our comprehensive resource on Chicago Public Schools (CPS) outcomes. Our mission is to provide parents, students, and community members with a resource to better understand the academic performance and success rates across the city.

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This website leverages school-level performance data used to create the CPS School Report Cards for the 2011-2012 school year. The dataset includes a wide range of metrics to provide a detailed understanding of academic performance and success rates across Chicago Public Schools. Click the link down below if you are interested in learning more about the dataset used to create the visualiztions in this website.

Learn more about the data here!

Each visualization on this site is interactive—click, drag, and explore to analyze the data in further detail! Several key metrics are also outlined below for further clarification if needed. Additionally, all four pages include insights accompanying the first two charts, followed by many additional charts for you to explore at your own pace!

Key Metrics

Student Perception/Safety category and score from the 5 Essential survey.

Involved Families category and score from the 5 Essentials Survey.

Supportive Environment category and score from 5 Essentials survey.

Ambitious Instruction category and score from 5 Essentials survey.

Effective Leaders category and score from 5 Essentials survey.

Collaborative Teachers category and score from 5 Essentials survey.

Parent Perception/Engagement category and score from parent survey.

Average daily student attendance.

Number of misconducts per 100 students.

Percent of IEPs and 504 plans completed by due date.

Percent of students at benchmark on DIBELS or IDEL.

Percent of students at benchmark on mClass.

Percent of students at grade level and percent of students meeting growth targets in math, grades 3-5

Percent of students at grade level and percent of students meeting growth targets in reading, grades 3-5

Percent of students at college readiness benchmark, math and reading.

ISAT Exceeding Math: Percent of students exceeding on ISAT, math

ISAT Exceeding Read: Percent of students exceeding on ISAT, reading

ISAT Value Add Math: ISAT value-add value, math

ISAT Value Add Read: ISAT value-add value, reading

ISAT Value Add Color Math: ISAT value-add color, math

ISAT Value Add Color Read: ISAT value-add color, reading.

Difference between Grade 9 Explore (2009) and Grade 10 Plan (2010).

Percent of graduates eligible for a selective four-year colleget.

Percent of students who have graduated within five years.

Percent of students enrolled in college.

The parallel categories visualizations below provide insights into how the different school-level metrics correlate with one another, allowing for deeper understandings of the trends and patterns in school effectiveness.

Elementary School Performance: Parallel Categories Visualizations

Early Literacy and School Climate: Parallel Trends in PK-2 Reading Proficiency

This visualization explores the relationships between early literacy and various school characteristics, including Safety, Family Involvement, Instruction, Environment, Leaders, and Teachers scores.

3 observations from the visualization:

Schools with very strong Safety frequently had PK-2 Literacy Scores in the yellow range, exceeding 90% proficiency.

Schools with very strong Supportive Environment scores also demonstrated strong or very strong Instruction scores.

Despite varied scores across the six categories, the majority of schools in each category were classified as "Average".

Family and Environment: Their Role in Early Literacy Development

This visualization explores the relationships between early literacy and various characteristics related to family involvement, including family involvement, parent engagement, and environment scores.

3 observations from the visualization:

In each of the three categories, the category with the largest number of schools was average.

Schools with the most yellow lines, indicating highest PK-2 literacy scores, were ranked as "Very Strong" in at least one of the three categories.

Yellow lines, indicating top performance, were notably rare across the parallel categories.

Factors Influencing PK-2 Math Scores

Parental Impact on Early Math Learning Outcomes

School and Environmental Influences on Grades 3-5 Reading Proficiency

Family Dynamics in Supporting Literacy for Grades 3-5

Factors Affecting Math Scores in Grades 3-5

Family Involvement and Math Performance in Grades 3-5

Miidle School Performance: Parallel Categories Visualizations

Reading Performance by School Icons

Reading Performance and Family Role

Math Performance by School Icons

Math Performance and Family Role

ISAT Math Value-Add by School Factors

ISAT Math Value-Add and Family Role

ISAT Reading Value-Add by School Factors

ISAT Reading Value-Add and Family Role

High School Performance: Parallel Categories Visualizations

High School Safety, Instruction, and Environment by Ward and Attendance Rates

Relationship Between Safety, Instruction, and Environment Icons by Ward and Attendance Rates

10th to 11th Grade Test Score Changes by School Safety, Instruction, and Environment

Impact of Safety, Instruction, and Environment on 9th-to-10th Grade Test Score Changes

Freshman On-Track Rate by Safety, Instruction, and Environment Factors

Graduation Rates by High School Safety, Instruction, and Environment Factors