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THE ARTS IN CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
District-wide
Distribution A more complete picture of the arts education landscape in CPS requires
an understanding of how access to arts education is distributed across the
city. The CSC helps provide that understanding while offering stakeholders a
road map to excellent arts programming for all types of schools: district-run
(including AUSL, ISP, and Service Leadership Academies schools), charter,
contract, and Options schools, 5 from all parts of the city.
School Type On the whole, district-run schools received higher ratings than other types
of schools. However, increases in the percentage rated Strong or Excelling
occurred in all three types of schools in 2016–17. This increase was modest
in the case of district-run schools, from 67 percent in 2015–16 to 70 percent
in 2016–17. The increase in the share of charter and contract schools rated
Strong or Excelling was considerably larger at 18 percentage points, from
39 percent in 2015–16 to 57 percent in 2016–17. And among Options schools,
the increase was 17 percentage points, from 13 percent in 2015–16 to
30 percent in 2016–17. 6
A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF DISTRICT-RUN SCHOOLS WERE CATEGORIZED AS STRONG
OR EXCELLING THAN OTHER TYPES OF SCHOOLS
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Excelling
Strong
Developing
Emerging
Incomplete
70% 57% 30%
District-run
518 schools Charter & Contract
105 schools Options
30 schools
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INGENUITY | STATE OF THE ARTS
See glossary for definitions of all school types.
 he low scores of Options schools merit a closer evaluation in the coming year to determine if the
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current way of calculating ratings accurately captures the arts education landscape in these specially
focused schools. These data may suggest that there is a better way to think about the arts in the
context of Options schools.