Interpreting published cutoffs
For Academic Centers (housed within high schools), offers were released on March 22, 2024 . Students in these programs are scored out of 600 points (300 for grades and 300 for the test). Chicago School Options Lane Tech AC : Cutoff for Tier 4 was approximately Whitney Young AC : Cutoff for Tier 4 was approximately Chicago School Options or details on how to apply for the upcoming 2025–2026 cycle High School Resources | Chicago Public Schools cps selective enrollment cutoff scores 20242024 updated
| Selective Enrollment School | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 | |----------------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------| | | 801 | 840 | 851 | 878 | | Northside College Prep | 823 | 850 | 862 | 882 | | Whitney M. Young Magnet | 798 | 830 | 845 | 869 | | Lane Tech College Prep | 727 | 762 | 787 | 818 | | Brooks College Prep | 699 | 736 | 759 | 790 | | King College Prep | 588 | 631 | 661 | 698 | | Lindblom Math & Science | 681 | 718 | 739 | 772 | | Hancock College Prep | 547 | 591 | 622 | 662 | | Westinghouse College Prep | 563 | 607 | 638 | 676 | | Gwendolyn Brooks (South Shore) – Note: Not to be confused with Brooks CP | N/A (program closed/merged) | – | – | – | | Chicago Vocational (CVCA) – Selective program | 503 | 545 | 578 | 617 | Young Magnet | 798 | 830 | 845
Before diving into the numbers, you must understand the context. For the 2024 admissions cycle, CPS continued to use the test exclusively (no more selective enrollment elementary schools entrance exam). However, CPS changed the weighting of the 7th-grade MAP scores. To decode the cutoffs, you must understand the math
To decode the cutoffs, you must understand the math. CPS uses a 50/50 weighting, but the execution is specific.
The data tells a clear story: The top three schools (Jones, Northside, Whitney Young) are now statistically impossible for Tier 4 students unless the child is a true genius (99th percentile).