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Theodore Roosevelt High School

Theodore Roosevelt High School. A Destination High School . RHS Quick Facts. Enrollment: 1425 Receiving special services: 16% Receiving ESL services: 13% Current Attendance rate: 87% CPS Performance Policy: Level 2. RHS 2013-14 School Goals. Attendance Rate: 90% Freshman On Track: 80%

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Theodore Roosevelt High School

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  1. Theodore Roosevelt High School A Destination High School

  2. RHS Quick Facts • Enrollment: 1425 • Receiving special services: 16% • Receiving ESL services: 13% • Current Attendance rate: 87% • CPS Performance Policy: Level 2

  3. RHS 2013-14 School Goals • Attendance Rate: 90% • Freshman On Track: 80% • Average ACT Score: 16.7 • Graduation Rate: 70% • College Enrollment Rate: 60%

  4. Why is RHS a Destination School? • AVID • WECEP • JROTC • SLCs • CTE • Advisory • College & Career Center • GEAR UP Alliance • Newcomer & Refugee support • Freshman Connection • Heartland Alliance Health Center • After School Matters • Academic Decathlon • Evening School Program 2011 Senior Prom Fashion Show

  5. Roosevelt High School Offerings • Various Sports Team • Cultural/Social Clubs • Fashion Shows • School Plays • School Musicals • Mock Trial • Yearbook • National Honor Society • Gay-Straight Alliance • Senior Prom Committee • Pennies for Peace • Driver’s Education • SES Tutoring • buildOn • AVID College Club • Community and college partnerships Imagi-NATIONS RHS International Night 2011

  6. RHS Sports LorinVolberding Wrestling Lacrosse Softball Baseball Basketball Track Cheerleading Football Swimming Soccer And many more… RHS Athletic Director

  7. RHS Clubs Society of Hispanic Engineers Mock Trial Tech Crew Bosnian Club Issues to Action Roosevelt’s Bee Keeping Club • Korean Club • Glee Club • Hip-Hop Club • Gardening Club • Medicina Academy (with University of Illinois-Chicago) • African American Club • Indo-Pak Club • National Honors Society • French Club • Filipino Club • Bee Keeping Club • Spanish Culture Club

  8. Small Learning Communities (SLCs) • An SLC is a small group of students (about 250) in grades 9-12 that shares the same teachers for 4 years, and takes most of its classes in a somewhat contained area of their school • Students rank their top 3 choices and almost always get their first choice • “Loop” with teachers: have the same teacher twice during high school • Elective options related to the SLC’s theme • Non-core classes are with all RHS students • Advanced Placement and honors classes are open to the whole school

  9. SLCs at RHS

  10. Arts & Humanities • Take advanced courses like: • Drama • Film • Intermediate/Advanced Band • AP Art History • Get more involved in school plays and musicals!

  11. Human Development & Early Childhood • Take advanced courses like: • Psychology • Sociology • 2 Career & Technical Education: • Teaching • Early Childhood

  12. Culinary Arts & Hospitality Management • Take advanced courses like: • Chicago History • Participate in the school’s garden and upcoming Farmer’s Market! • 2 Career & Technical Education programs: • Culinary Arts (full kitchen!) • Hospitality Management

  13. Information Technology & Business • Take advanced courses like: • Geospatial Information Systems • Participate in the school’s Tech Crew and student-led Business Club! • 2 Career & Technical Education programs: • CISCO Networking • Game Programming

  14. Ulysses S. Grant Army Military Academy • Selective city-wide Army Military Academy • Take advanced courses like: • Leadership 1-4 • ROTC 1-4 • Cartography • Participate in the program’s Color Guard and Orienteering trips!

  15. Medicine & Health Care • Take advanced courses like: • Zoology • Participate in the school’s partnership with Medicina Academy at University of Illinois at Chicago • 2 Career & Technical Programs: • Practical Nursing Program • Medical & Health Careers

  16. The Academy • Take a rigorous course load of honors and Advanced Placement (AP) courses • Take 4 years of all 4 core classes (English, math, history, science) to be competitive for selective colleges • Participate in the school’s clubs like Academic Decathalon

  17. International Newcomer Center • Receive language support while adjusting to living in Chicago (and the U.S.) • Get support from tutors of many languages

  18. Thank you for checking out Roosevelt High School!

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