A Decade Of Progress At the end of the 2006-07 school year: • The four-year high school graduation rate was 90 percent. • CPS graduation rate for the same class was about 54 percent. • 85 percent of Chicago International graduates were accepted into college. • Average ACT of 11th grade students was 19.2, the highest of any Illinois charter school. • 19.2 represents an increase in average score of 2.1 points over the prior year. • The average ACT score for the Chicago Public Schools was 16.3. • CICS Northtown Academy is the first nonselective high school in Chicago to have an average ACT above 20. • 22 percent of our 8th grade graduates were accepted into selective enrollment high schools (compared to CPS average of 11%). • Chicago International campuses offer more than 150 after-school and community-based programs to children and families.
Washington Park Campus opens, Kindergarten through Grade 4.
On January 30, Chicago International Charter School (CICS) incorporates as an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.
Edison Schools begins managing Longwood. Longwood Campus expands to include Grade 12.
The CICS Bucktown and Longwood campuses open. 2000
1997
1998
1998
Prairie Campus opens, Kindergarten through Grade 5.
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Longwood Campus expands to include Grade 11.
1999
2000
2001
Washington Park Campus expands to second building and doubles in size.
1999
American Quality Schools (AQS), an educational management organization launches.
2001
1997
Prairie Campus expands to include Grade 6.
Prairie Campus expands to include Grade 7.
Irving Park (Kindergarten through Grade 4) opens. CCSF issues $48m in bonds and uses funds to purchase Northtown Campus.
2007
CICS charter renews for another five-year term. CCSF partners with fourth educational management organization, Victory Schools.
2005
2007
Wrightwood Campus (Kindergarten through Grade 5) and Avalon/South Shore Campus (Kindergarten through Grade 4) open through the Renaissance 2010 program, bringing total number of campuses to nine and total number of students served to more than 5,600.
2006 2006
The 2nd Gates’ high school, Ralph Ellison Campus (Grade 9) opens.
2005 Basil Campus (Kindergarten through Grade 2) and West Belden Campus (Kindergarten through Grade 5) open. Chicago Charter School Foundation (CCSF) starts Civitas Schools, its own educational management organization.
CCSF purchases a closed high school on the south side of Chicago and undertakes a $15m renovation, which includes expanding the building and adding a gym. CCSF is awarded 2,400 additional seats through the invited process of Renaissance 2010.
CICS purchases the Basil building through a $16m bond. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards a multimillion dollar grant to CICS to open four new high school campuses over a period of several years.
2004
2002
2004
CCSF is awarded a strategic planning grant through Walton Family Foundation and puts together a strategic business plan for next five years. CICS is the largest charter school in Illinois, with seven campuses serving more than 4,600 students from Pre-K through Grade 12.
2002
2003
Chicago Public School names CICS a School of Excellence. The CICS Basil Campus expands to include Grade 7.
2003
Northtown Campus opens Grades 9-12 and is the first free-standing CICS campus and first of the Gates’ high schools.
Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) names CICS a Supplemental Education Services (SES) provider for after-school programs.
Basil Campus $5m renovation is completed; Basil opens Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 6. It is the only free, all-day Pre-Kindergarten school in the Englewood area.
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