Theodore Roosevelt High SchoolA Destination High School

RHS Quick FactsEnrollment: 1425

Receiving special services: 16%Receiving ESL services: 13%

Current Attendance rate: 87%CPS Performance Policy: Level 2

RHS 2013-14 School GoalsAttendance Rate: 90%Freshman On Track: 80%Average ACT Score: 16.7Graduation Rate: 70%College Enrollment Rate: 60%

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

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

partnershipsImagi-NATIONSRHS International Night 2011

RHS Sports

Lorin Volberding

Wrestling Lacrosse Softball Baseball Basketball Track Cheerleading Football Swimming Soccer

RHS Athletic Director

And many more…

RHS Clubs• 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

Roosevelt’s Bee Keeping Club

• Society of Hispanic Engineers• Mock Trial• Tech Crew• Bosnian Club• Issues to Action

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

Small Learning Communities (SLCs)

SLCs at RHS

- Take advanced courses like:- Drama- Film- Intermediate/Advanced Band- AP Art History

- Get more involved in school plays and musicals!

Arts & Humanities

Human Development & Early Childhood

- Take advanced courses like:- Psychology- Sociology

- 2 Career & Technical Education:

- Teaching- Early Childhood

- 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

Culinary Arts & Hospitality Management

- 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

Information Technology & Business

- 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!

Ulysses S. Grant Army Military Academy

- 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

Medicine & Health Care

- 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

The Academy

- Receive language support while adjusting to living in Chicago (and the U.S.)

- Get support from tutors of many languages

International Newcomer Center

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School!