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D. Candidate  \nBoston College  \nIntroduction  \nFor years, progressive politicians in cities across the U.S. have tried to shut down selective enrollment high schools, which use standardized tests and grades to determine student admissions.1 These institutions offer academically gifted, public school students a rigorous education and other opportunities typically available only in private schools. They are, in this way, a great equalizer in American secondary education, providing talented high schoolers ofall racial and socioeconomic backgrounds with the tools to succeed.  \nProgressives and their teachers’union allies, however, oppose selective enrollment high schools. They claim that these schools contain few, if any, so-called underrepresented minorities, take resources away from traditional district schools, and further educational inequities between white and Asian American students, on the one hand, and black and Hispanic students, on the other.  \nIn this issue brief, I evaluate the validity of these claims and others in the context of Chicago’s selective enrollment high schools.  \nSelective Success: A Comparative Analysis of Chicago’s Selective Enrollment and Public High Schools  \nThese schools serve as a useful case study because of their size and because, since December 2023, members of the Board of Education and Mayor Brandon Johnson have been threatening to close them. They argue that the schools further educational segregation and hold back other Chicago schools. I find, however, that:  \n• Chicagoans want educational choice, including the choice to attend a selective enrollment high school. During the 2022–23 school year, 76.2% of high school students chose to attend a school other than the one assigned to them by Chicago Public Schools (CPS) .  \n• In 2025, low-income students constituted at least one-third of each selective enrollment high school’s student body.  \n• Almost 70% of all students at selective enrollment schools are black and Hispanic. White and Asian American students are in the minority. Among the top eight selective enrollment high schools—those that rank among Illinois’s top 25 schools—black and Hispanic students constituted a majority at three (Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy, John Hancock College Preparatory High School, and Lindblom Math and Science Academy) anda plurality at four others (Jones College Prep, Lane Tech College Prep High School, Walter Payton College Preparatory High School, and Whitney M. Young Magnet High School) .  \n• With the exception of Lane, Chicago’s selective enrollment high schools were established in order to integrate, not segregate, CPS.  \n• The black–white, Hispanic–white, and low-income–non-low-income achievement gaps in ACT English and math are, on average, significantly smaller at the city’s eight top selective enrollment high schools than at CPS overall.  \n• On average, CPS spends $3,285 more per student in nonselective schools than in the top eight selective enrollment high schools—and delivers far worse results.  \nSelective enrollment high schools in Chicago produce better results, at a lower cost, than the system as a whole. Far from being damaging to academically gifted black, Hispanic, and lowincome students, these educational institutions act as a lifeline for them.  \nSchool Choice and Selective Enrollment High Schools in Chicago  \nSelective enrollment high schools represent a vital, yet frequently neglected, component of the school choice debate. The discourse on choice and standards often focuses on children who are struggling academically, those with special needs, or re","cbCaimknhazNYdt1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimknhazNYdt1","pdf",427970,13,"English","# Introduction\n# Selective Success: A Comparative Analysis of Chicago’s Selective Enrollment and Public High Schools\n## School Choice and Selective Enrollment High Schools in Chicago\n## Figure 1: Percentage of First-Time, Ninth-Grade CPS Students Attending a Choice School","[{\"question\":\"What are selective enrollment high schools in Chicago, and how do they determine admissions?\",\"answer\":\"They use standardized tests and grades to determine student admissions, offering academically rigorous education and additional opportunities to selected public school students.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the brief say about educational choice in Chicago?\",\"answer\":\"It reports strong demand for choice, noting that a majority of high school students opted to attend schools other than their assigned neighborhood schools during the 2022–23 school year.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the brief compare selective enrollment schools with Chicago Public Schools overall?\",\"answer\":\"It concludes that the top selective enrollment high schools produce better results at lower cost and that achievement gaps are, on average, smaller at these selective schools than across CPS overall.\"}]","Selective Success - A Comparative Analysis of Chicago’s Selective Enrollment and Public High Schools | PDF",1792054069,33]