McNair School of Excellence

In my experience this school has been improving. The school is under new leadership and has recently moved back to a CPS. In the past advanced courses such as Algebra wasn’t an option because there wasn’t a certified Algebra endorsed teacher. Howe has offered Algebra for the last two academic years. I’m year 1 66% of the students that took the Algebra Exit exam passed. In year two 100% of the Algebra Exit exam passed. Teachers are educated and dedicated to providing a great learning experience. The SEL supports are second to none. All students that have an IEP are receiving services per their plan. Safety within the school is no issue the surrounding community could use some help and that’s the job of the City of Chicago. Lets not forget that schools such as Howe are over 100 years old and the building was not maintained as it should have been, but this new administration has updated the facilities. They have been making connections with businesses in the community. Websites like this don’t take those key factors into account and they also never dawn the halls of these schools. Ask yourself why are all the schools serving a majority of low income students always at the bottom? If we know that providing proper resources and personnel would help why haven’t the resources been allocated. This school is one without a gifted program, but there are gifted students at every grade level. Get to know the people, the community and then produce narratives based on firsthand experiences. The information in this site Thats being shared is from 2008, the administration is wrong, the information is wrong.

The din hit on kids and cussing at they try to hit on the kids mom

This school is so bad bad bad

Excelente higiene en las aulas,se la recomendaría a mis amigos y familiares

It’s my first year at this school I already had trouble the teachers are alright just don’t handle problems correctly it’s a math teacher she is a older woman so she don’t understand kids and the way they feel I have about 3 parent teacher conferences with this same teachers and I also feel as my learning has dropped since I been to this school my math grade has went down it was always a B+ and above now a DorF i tried to talk to the teacher for help all she do is tell me nothing and have a attitude if you ask her a simple question she says “Are you challenging me” then have a big argument for no reason and want a parent teacher conference she is very inconsiderate

This is an awesome school! The staff is great, attentive and loving. The children are always excitingly learning when I am there and they care for their parents as well. They teach Spanish and respect for others.