Hancock College Preparatory High School
Contact Information
| Principal: | Karen Boran |
| Phone: | 773-535-2410 |
| Web site: | www.hancockhs.org |
| Address: |
4034 West 56th Street Chicago, IL 60629 |
| Freshman class size: | 105 Selective Enrollment, 105 CTE per grade level |
| Total enrollment: | TBD (grades 9 – 12) |
Background
In the fall of 2015, Hancock High will be host to a Selective Enrollment High School and a College and Technical Education (CTE) that will be housed in the same facility. The Selective Enrollment and CTE programs have different curriculums and a the CTE program will have a different, less rigorous admissions process. Combining Selective Enrollment students with students admitted through a different process – within the same building – is a relatively new “trend”. Among the ten Selective Enrollment High Schools, only Westinghouse, South Shore and Jones College Prep have a student base that is not 100% Selective Enrollment. Students living in the neighborhood will be given preference in admissions to the CTE portion of the school. Like Jones, Hancock’s CTE program will be have two tracks — a pre-law and pre-engineering pathway.
Unlike the most recent new addition to the Selective Enrollment family (South Shore), Hancock Selective Enrollment students will not receive a brand new building. However, the existing Hancock High School is undergoing extensive renovations.
Admissions
In its debut admissions year (2015-2016), Hancock posted an average score of 733, which was a respectable score for a new comer — a new Selective Enrollment High School without an existing track record.
In its first year, Hancock’s cut-off scores for Tier 4 students were lower than the ones for Tier 1 students as shown in Figure 3. This means that Hancock had difficulty attracting academically advanced middle class students — at least in its first round of admissions. Ultimately to be a more successful Selective Enrollment High School, Hancock will have to prove more attractive to this group of students.
Programs
It is assumed that Hancock will offer more AP classes than are available in its neighborhood curriculum, but unfortunately details about Hancock’s new curriculum are not yet available.
Performance
Hancock High School is too new for its students to have generated any academic performance statistics.