Urban Prep Englewood and Urban Prep Bronzeville are under contract with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to use the GoCPS software and process for admission of incoming 9th graders. If you are interested in attending as a 10th-12th grader, you must complete the Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men Transfer Information Form. Once the form is completed, the student will receive confirmation of receipt from Urban Prep’s Manager of Student Recruitment, who will also request any other necessary information and connect the student to the campus they are interested in. If there is space available in their grade, they will be granted admission; if there is no space available, they will be put on the transfer waitlist until space becomes available.
While Urban Prep has the necessary infrastructure to fully execute lottery and admission processes in full compliance with the law, we do not foresee the need to host a lottery for enrollment into any grade level at Urban Prep Englewood or Urban Prep Bronzeville. In the event that executing a lottery is necessary, Urban Prep will accept completed student applications until January 31st. If the number of students submitting applications exceeds the number of available spaces in the class, two separate admissions lotteries (one for Englewood and one for Bronzeville) will be held on March 15th at 11am at the Urban Prep Englewood Campus. Each lottery will be held manually, will be open to the public and will be conducted by school administrators. Each applicant’s name will be put into the lottery for the respective school(s) they have applied to ONE time in order to provide each student an equal chance at admission. On March 17th, the students selected in the lottery will receive notice via email and telephone that they have been admitted to an Urban Prep school and will have until April 15th to accept or decline admission. Once the class is filled, the students who were not chosen in the lottery will be placed on a waitlist. If lottery winners decide not to enroll, those students on the waiting list will be admitted as space becomes available. Urban Prep is required to submit our lottery student waitlist to Chicago Public Schools on a quarterly basis. The lottery waitlist is updated on an ongoing basis as interested students complete the Urban Prep interest form. If the number of applicants does not exceed the number of available spaces, a lottery will not be conducted, and all applicants will be admitted. Additional students will be admitted on a rolling admission basis until the class is filled. Urban Prep will submit all lottery materials (video, summary, etc) to Chicago Public Schools via email by April 15th.
Urban Prep Englewood and Urban Prep Bronzeville give priority to children with siblings who already attend the schools. It is important to note, however, that interested students must still submit a GoCPS application if they are an incoming freshman; or they must complete the Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men Transfer Information Form if they are entering in grades 10-12.
Urban Prep does not engage in any selective admission activity. Urban Prep does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, gender identity, gender expression, disability or sexual orientation.