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Programs
You apply to a program, not just a school — and 104 CPS high schools run them. Nursing, robotics, culinary, IB, cybersecurity, cosmetology, agriculture, a full arts major. Here is what each one is, who it suits, and where it exists.
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The 11 test-in college prep schools — decided by points, not by who you know.
11 schools · Walter Payton College Prep and more
Learn the body, the terminology and the machines — then go do it in a real hospital.
17 schools · Crane Medical HS and more
Design it, machine it, assemble it — on equipment most colleges don't even have.
11 schools · Curie HS and more
Write the code, break the system, fix the network — and get certified doing it.
9 schools · Lindblom HS and more
Producer, director, game programmer, designer — the jobs behind the thing everyone watches.
16 schools · Curie HS and more
Art, music, dance or drama as your major — taught with the city's actual arts institutions.
12 schools · Chicago Arts HS and more
The hardest academic track CPS offers outside Selective Enrollment — and it's at 24 schools.
24 schools · Amundsen HS and more
Structure, rank and responsibility — four-year academies built around leading people.
6 schools · Phoenix Military HS and more
A commercial kitchen, a real menu, and the business side of feeding people.
11 schools · Curie HS and more
Courtrooms, forensics and criminal justice — with the field trips that make it real.
6 schools · Jones HS and more
Animals, greenhouses and food systems — on a working farm inside the city limits.
3 schools · Chicago Agriculture HS and more
Banking, accounting and starting things — taught as skills, not as a club.
5 schools · Curie HS and more
From the drawing to the finished build — and you're holding the tools.
3 schools · Curie HS and more
Engines, aircraft and logistics — how everything and everyone actually gets there.
3 schools · Curie HS and more
Learn how learning works — and practice on actual kids, not role-plays.
6 schools · Curie HS and more
Take real college classes in high school — for free — and some students graduate with a two-year degree already finished.
14 schools · Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy and more
Two years of running your own research, ending in a paper and a defense — the closest thing to college in high school.
16 schools · Whitney M. Young Magnet High School and more
An advanced academic track with AP and college credit, without the Selective Enrollment test.
9 schools · Von Steuben HS and more
Take your classes in two languages and graduate genuinely bilingual, on paper.
3 schools · Back of the Yards HS and more
Job shadow real professionals and visit the businesses you might work for.
4 schools · Prosser HS and more
Cosmetology and barbering in a state-of-the-art lab, with a license at the end of it.
1 school · Chicago Vocational HS
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