About half of CPS students do not live within the neighborhood zone of any magnet elementary school¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2000 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2003: local conditions change quickly

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Approximately half of CPS students live outside the 1.5-mile neighborhood zone of every magnet elementary school. → Elaine M. Allensworth 2000

Evidence¶

Elaine M. Allensworth 2000¶

Elaine M. Allensworth, Todd Rosenkranz. (2000). Access to Magnet Schools in Chicago. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/access-magnet-schools-chicago

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Descriptive analysis of CPS student record files and school locations for fall 1999, mapping 1.5-mile neighborhood zones around the 32 magnet elementary schools. The report states "About half of the students in the CPS do not live within the neighborhood zone of any magnet school."

"About half of the students in the CPS do not live within the neighborhood zone of any magnet school."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• African-American and Asian students are more likely than Latino and white students to live within multiple magnet neighborhood zones — related
• Areas of Chicago without magnet elementary schools have lower median family income and fewer white residents than areas within magnet neighborhood zones — related
• African-American students travel farther to attend magnet elementary schools than students of other ethnicities — related
• Two years after the comprehensive magnet school policy, overall enrollment patterns by student residence had not changed substantially — related
• The CVPromise catchment area was deliberately aligned with the attendance zone of Castle Park Elementary, a low-performing school in program improvement status — related