The numbers: 1996-2000

HIGH SCHOOL
INTERVENTION

Great principals needed to rescue intervention
See also: Why these schools?

Data and history:

* Intervention schools: The numbers:1996-2000
* Individual profiles: Bowen | Collins | DuSable | Orr | South Shore

* High school accountability strategies 1996-2000: A scorecard

Juarez dodges intervention, becomes community academy

Below are test scores and demographic data for the five intervention high schools and the city as a whole from 1996-2000. For graphs and other details on individual schools, follow the links to their separate profiles. For a list of all accountability measures taken in Chicago public high schools since 1996, see the Accountability Scorecard.

TEST SCORES
Reading (% at/above 50th percentile)
	1996	1997	1998	1999*	2000
Bowen	10.4	14.5	19.8	20.4	13.5
Collins	3.9	11.2	12.1	27.6	10.9
South Shore	6.5	10.4	14.9	17.5	13.5
DuSable	5.3	4.9	12.5	9.1	8
Orr	2.5	3.7	11	9.5	12.5
Citywide	20.5	24.4	28.6	32	35.3**

Math (% at/above 50th percentile)
	1996	1997	1998	1999*	2000
Bowen	12.7	19.7	22.0%	25.1	21.1
Collins	2.7	11.3	18.1%	40.3	26.6
South Shore	6.9	8.7	19.4%	17.0	18.4
DuSable	9.2	8.4	12.8%	15.2	19
Orr	3.2	5.4	4.9	13.5	17.1
Citywide	21.7	30.1	31.2	41.0	45

* Prior to 1999, grades 9 & 11 were the required years for testing; starting in 1999, grades 9 & 10 became the required years. Scores for 1999 and 2000 are for grades 9 & 11.

Demographic/ other data
	Bowen	Collins	South Shore	DuSable	Orr	Citywide
%black	60.8	99.9	99.9	100	90.3	52.7
% Latino	38.8	0.1	0	0	9.2	33.7
% white	0.4	0	0	0	0.5	10.2
% other	0	0	0.1	0	0.1	3.4
Enrollment	1087	789	989	1062	1089	420839
% low income	89.2	97.1	82.7	92.1	88.2	84.5
% LEP	11.2	0	0	0	3.5	15.9
% Mobility	40.9	29.5	39.8	46.2	61.9	27.6
% attendance (avg. daily)	84.1	80.1	80.1	77.1	72.2	90.9
% dropout (1-year)	24.9	16.1	22.4	21	33.7	15.5
% graduation	59.3	56.3	48.5	45.2	45	65.3

source: Chicago Public Schools

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