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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

 500 WEST MADISON ST., SUITE 1475

CHICAGO, IL 60661-4544

REGION V

ILLINOIS

INDIANA

IOWA

MINNESOTA

NORTH DAKOTA

WISCONSIN

July 9, 2015

Mr. Jesse H. Ruiz

Interim Chief Executive Officer

Chicago Public Schools District #299

42 West Madison St.

Chicago, IL 60602

Re: Chicago Public Schools District #299

OCR Case #05-11-1034 

Dear Mr. Ruiz: 

This letter is to notify you of the disposition of the above-referenced complaint, which the 

National Women’s Law Center filed with the U.S. Department of Education (the 

Department), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on November 10, 2010. The complaint alleged 

that the Chicago Public Schools District #299 (District) discriminates against female 

students on the basis of sex. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the District subjects 

high school girls to discrimination on the basis of sex because the selection of 

interscholastic sports at the District’s high schools does not effectively accommodate the 

interests and abilities of members of both sexes to the extent necessary to provide equal 

athletic opportunity.

OCR is responsible for enforcing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title 

IX), 20 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq., and its implementing regulation, 34 C.F.R. Part 106, which 

prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity operated 

by a recipient of Federal financial assistance. As a recipient of Federal financial assistance 

from the Department, the District is subject to Title IX. 

During the complaint investigation, OCR reviewed information provided by the 

Complainant and the District. Prior to the conclusion of OCR’s investigation, the District 

requested to resolve the complaint. Subsequent discussions with District officials resulted 

in the District signing the enclosed Resolution Agreement (Agreement) on July 1, 2015. 

Under the terms of the Agreement, the District will provide, on a school by school basis, an 

equal opportunity for male and female high school students to participate in interscholastic 

athletics. The Agreement, when fully and effectively implemented, will resolve the 

complaint.
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Background

OCR’s investigation revealed that the number and types of sports offered by the District 

vary from high school to high school and the levels of sports (e.g., varsity, junior varsity, 

sophomore, freshman) vary as well. High schools offering an interscholastic athletics 

program choose the specific sports and levels of sports offered from among those sports that 

have been sanctioned for competition by the Chicago Public High Schools Athletic 

Association (commonly known as the Public League) and (with the exception of 16 inch 

softball) the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). The Public League is the governing 

body that oversees, promotes and regulates interscholastic athletics in the District, and it 

offers a Chicago Public High Schools Championship at the end of each sport’s season. The 

IHSA is the governing body that oversees, promotes and regulates interscholastic athletics 

in the state of Illinois, and it offers a State Championship tournament at the end of each 

sport’s season.

During the 2013-14 school year, District high schools offered all or some of the following 

14 high school sports for boys: baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, golf, lacrosse, 

soccer, softball (16 inch), swimming, tennis, track and field (indoor and outdoor), 

volleyball, and water polo. During the same period, District high schools offered all or some 

of the following 13 high school sports for girls: basketball, bowling, cross country, golf, 

lacrosse, soccer, softball (fast pitch), swimming, tennis, track and field (indoor and 

outdoor), volleyball, and water polo. In addition, the schools offered two sports sanctioned 

by the Public League as co-ed sports: football and wrestling.1

 OCR confirmed that 18 girls 

participated in football and 51 girls participated in wrestling. 

The District’s Department of Sports Administration & Facilities Management oversees the 

administration of interscholastic high school sports in the District. During the course of 

OCR’s investigation, the District appointed a new Title IX Sports Compliance Coordinator, 

who is responsible for communicating, collaborating and consulting with OCR about the 

District’s implementation of the Agreement.

Legal Standard

The provision of equal opportunities with respect to participation in interscholastic athletics 

is addressed in the Title IX implementing regulation at 34 C.F.R. § 106.41(c)(1). The 

implementing regulation states that in determining whether equal opportunities are provided 

for boys and girls, OCR considers whether the selection of sports equally effectively 

 1

The sports sanctioned by the Public League are the same as the sports sanctioned by IHSA, with the 

exception of boys’ and girls’ gymnastics and girls’ badminton, which are sanctioned by ISHA but not the 

Public League, and 16 inch softball, which is sanctioned by the Public League but not IHSA. 
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accommodates the interests and abilities of members of both sexes to the extent necessary 

to provide equal opportunity.2

In making this assessment, OCR applies the following three-part test (Three-Part Test):

1. the athletic participation opportunities for male and female students are provided in 

numbers substantially proportionate to their respective enrollments; or

2. there is a history and continuing practice of program expansion, which is 

demonstrably responsive to the developing interests and abilities of the 

underrepresented sex; or 

3. the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex are fully and effectively 

accommodated by the present program. 

If an institution meets any one part of the Three-Part Test, then OCR will determine that 

the institution provides each sex with nondiscriminatory opportunities to participate. Each 

part of the Three-Part Test is an equally sufficient and separate method of complying with 

the Title IX regulatory requirement to provide nondiscriminatory athletic participation 

opportunities. If an institution’s athletic program proportionately affords each sex with 

the level of competition reflective of their respective abilities, then OCR will determine 

that the institution is fully and effectively accommodating athletic interests and abilities. 

Part One: Substantially Proportionate Participation Opportunities

Under Part One of the Three-Part Test, where an institution provides interscholastic level 

participation opportunities for male and female students in numbers substantially 

proportionate to their respective enrollments, OCR will find that the institution is 

providing nondiscriminatory participation opportunities for individuals of both sexes.

OCR will also consider opportunities to be substantially proportionate when the number 

of opportunities that would be required to achieve proportionality would not be sufficient 

to sustain a viable team; i.e., a team for which there is a sufficient number of interested 

and able students and enough available competition to sustain an interscholastic team. As 

a frame of reference in assessing this situation, OCR may consider the average size of 

teams offered for the underrepresented sex, a number that might vary by institution.

OCR examined information the District provided pertaining to the enrollment and athletic 

participation of boys and girls at each of the District’s high schools. In the 2013-14 school 

 2

In addition to the Title IX regulations, the following clarifying OCR policy and guidance documents are 

also applicable: the OCR Intercollegiate Athletics Policy Interpretation, issued December 11, 1979; 44 Fed. 

Reg. 71,413 (1979), available at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9interp.html; and a Dear 

Colleague Letter, issued by OCR on April 20, 2010, Intercollegiate Athletics Policy Clarification: The 

Three-Part Test – Part Three, available at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague20100420.html.
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year, the District had 98 high schools with an enrollment of 85,347 students.3 Of this 

number, 41,926 or 49.12% are boys and 43,421 or 50.88% are girls. The District reported to 

OCR a total high school interscholastic athletic participation of 31,799 students at these 

schools. Of this number, 18,664 or 58.69% are boys and 13,135 or 41.31% are girls.4

For the 2013-14 school year, the District reported that there were no interscholastic 

athletics programs at six of the 98 high schools.

5 OCR’s investigation revealed that some 

students from the six high schools may participate in another school’s interscholastic 

athletics program (i.e., students at DeVry Academy may participate in sports at Alcott 

High School). As for the remaining 92 high schools, data submitted by the District

indicated that girls were underrepresented in more than 90% (84 of 92) high schools, but 

not underrepresented at the remaining eight high schools in the 2013-14 school year.6

Of the remaining 84 high schools, the information indicated girls were underrepresented 

in the schools’ interscholastic athletic programs. At these schools, the disparity in rates 

between the enrollment of girls and their interscholastic athletic participation rates 

represented as few as one additional participation opportunity needed for female athletes 

at one school (Dyett High School) to as many as 477 additional participation 

opportunities needed for female athletes at another school (Lane Technical High 

School).

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Part Two: History and Continuing Practice of Program Expansion

Under Part Two of the Three-Part Test, an institution may demonstrate compliance by 

showing that it has a history and continuing practice of program expansion that is 

demonstrably responsive to the developing interests and abilities of the underrepresented

sex. Part Two examines an institution's past and continuing remedial efforts to provide 

 3

These figures do not include charter schools. OCR reminds the District that the Federal civil rights laws, 

regulations, and guidance, including Title IX, that apply to charter schools are the same as those that apply 

to other public schools. See, OCR’s Dear Colleague Letter dated May 14, 2014, concerning the 

applicability of Federal civil rights laws to charter schools, found online at 

http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201405-charter.pdf. 4

By letter dated May 8, 2015, the District asked OCR to consider its co-ed competitive cheer and dance 

teams to be part of the District’s interscholastic athletic program and to count the participants as athletic 

participants for the purposes of assessing Title IX compliance. For purposes of this letter, participants in 

cheer and dance have not been included in OCR’s analysis of the District’s compliance with Title IX. OCR 

will consider the information provided by the District during the monitoring of the Agreement, in light of 

OCR’s guidance. See OCR’s Dear Colleague Letter dated September 17, 2008, “Activities Counted for 

Title IX Compliance,” at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-20080917.html 5

The six schools were Chicago Excel Academy, Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago Technology

Academy, Community Services West, DeVry University Advantage Academy, and Prologue Early College. 6

The eight schools were Air Force Academy, Disney II Magnet, Gage Park, George Washington Carver 

Military Academy, Hyman Rickover Naval Academy, Infinity Math Science and Technology, North-Grand, 

and Richard Crane Medical Preparatory. 

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The enrollment and interscholastic athletic participation rate disparities are set forth in the attached Appendix, 

which identifies the 84 high schools. 
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nondiscriminatory participation opportunities for members of the underrepresented sex

through program expansion.

The District did not provide documentation of its record for individual high schools of 

increasing the numbers of participants in interscholastic athletics who are members of the 

underrepresented sex and/or reliable information about the range of sports and competitive 

levels offered.

In June 2013, the District administered a survey to individual high school athletic directors 

that asked for information about requests for the addition or elevation as well as the 

elimination of sports or teams for girls. OCR’s review of the results of the survey revealed 

that some athletic directors reported that there have been requests during their tenures, but 

most of the directors did not provide additional information about the District’s response 

to such requests. Athletic Directors identified requests for new girls’ sports or additional 

levels for existing sports at their schools for lacrosse, badminton, track and field, 

swimming, softball, rugby, soccer, gymnastics, bowling, tennis, golf, and water polo. 

Some respondents also acknowledged that some girls’ teams were eliminated, including 

swimming, soccer, softball, bowling, golf and water polo, tennis, track and field, and 

basketball. 

Part Three: Effective Accommodation of Interest and Abilities

In determining compliance with Part Three of the Three-Part Test, OCR determines 

whether, despite being unable to demonstrate substantial proportionality or a history and 

continuing practice of program expansion, an institution is nevertheless fully and 

effectively accommodating the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex. 

Prior to the commencement of OCR’s investigation, the District did not publish notice of 

how students, parents or other members of the community could request the addition of 

sports or the elevation of sports to the interscholastic level. The District informed OCR 

that its Department of Sports Administration & Facilities Management did not receive 

any requests during the 2013-14 school year for the addition or elevation of a sport or 

team to interscholastic status either District-wide or at individual high schools. However, 

the District also indicated that it had not asked for information at individual high schools 

about whether requests had been received in the 2013-14 or in preceding school years. 

OCR noted earlier that, in response to the District’s June 2013 survey of athletic 

directors, some high school athletic directors acknowledged that there had been requests

for the addition or elevation of a sport or team and/or the elimination of some teams for 

girls.

In the 2013-14 school year, the District made available an on-line survey for all of its 

freshmen, sophomore and junior year boys and girls to assess their athletic interests and 

abilities. OCR approved the content of the survey. The survey distribution methodology, 

which OCR did not preapprove, resulted in low participation by female students. Results 
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were provided to OCR and indicate that no responses were received from any girls at over 

15 of the District’s 98 high schools. The District did not identify to OCR a response rate 

for this survey by individual high school, however, OCR estimates that the response rate 

of the surveyed girls was less than 10% at more than 90% of the individual high schools 

from which responses were received and, of those schools, more than 50% had a response 

rate of less than 5%. OCR informed the District during the investigation that the rates of 

response by girls to this survey did not indicate that the survey maximized the possibility 

of obtaining accurate information and facilitating responses from the District’s high 

school girls. 

Further, the District indicated that it has not conducted any analysis of whether individual 

high schools offer club or intramural sports, and, if so, the number of girls who have 

participated in such athletic activities. OCR observed from the District’s June 2013 

surveys conducted by the District of high school athletic directors that only a few athletic 

directors reported club or intramural athletic activity at their schools with generally small 

numbers of girls participating in such activity. Sports identified included ice hockey (3 

schools), lacrosse (2 schools), and field hockey, archery, and badminton (1 school for 

each). A few athletic directors reported that girls participated in intramural basketball at 

their schools.

In this case, the information obtained to date indicates that there would be sufficient 

ability and available competition to support the expansion of existing girls’ 

interscholastic sports in the District’s or addition of new Public League girls’ sports.

The Resolution Agreement

As noted above, prior to the completion of OCR’s investigation, the District requested to 

resolve the case with an agreement. As such, OCR is not making a determination as to 

whether the District has complied with any part of the Three-Part Test with respect to any of 

the 98 high schools at issue, including the six schools that do not offer interscholastic 

athletics programs and the eight schools for which the District reported no 

underrepresentation of girls in the schools’ interscholastic athletics programs.

On July 1, 2015, the District agreed to resolve the complaint by entering into the enclosed 

Agreement. The Agreement is aligned with the allegation in case #05-11-1034 and the 

information obtained during the investigation, and is consistent with applicable 

regulations.8 When fully and effectively implemented, the Agreement will resolve the 

complaint. 

Under the terms of the Agreement, the District will provide an equal opportunity for male 

and female students to participate in athletics at each of its high schools. Except as noted 

 8 The District’s full and effective implementation of the commitments in present Agreement will resolve the 

monitoring of a previous resolution agreement with the District (case #05-89-1020).
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in the Agreement and as appropriate, the District has not chosen a specific part of the 

Three-Part Test that it will use to show Title IX compliance and may demonstrate 

compliance with any part of the Three-Part Test at each high school. The Agreement 

states that, by August 1, 2015, the District expects to demonstrate compliance with Part 

One of the Three-Part Test at twelve or more high schools. 

For other schools where Part One compliance is not established, by September 30, 2015, 

the District will conduct a comprehensive assessment of the athletic interests of students 

at each high school to determine whether female students have unmet athletics interests 

and abilities. The assessment will include results from District surveys of athletic 

interests and abilities conducted since the 2013-14 school year, and to be conducted 

annually, following pre-approval by OCR of the survey and its implementation. The 

survey will include current freshmen, sophomores and juniors, as well as incoming 

freshmen. The assessment will be based on multiple indicators of interests and, if 

applicable, multiple indicators of abilities. The assessment will include students who are 

enrolled in other District high schools that do not have athletics programs but who are 

eligible to participate in athletics at the school.

Based on the assessment, the District will offer additional athletic opportunities to girls 

by creating new sports teams, adding levels to existing teams, or increasing the squad size 

of existing teams.

Where the District already offers a sport at a high school, it will add additional levels of 

competition or squads at a minimum of twelve high schools for the 2015-2016 

competitive season, and new levels or squads of currently existing sports will continue to 

be added at all high schools annually until such time as the high school has demonstrated 

to OCR compliance the Three-Part Test, but by no later than the 2018-2019 competitive 

season. 

Where the District does not offer a sport at a high school, then it will determine whether 

there is a sufficient number of high school female students with sufficient interest and, if 

applicable, ability to support the addition of a team or multiple teams (varsity, junior 

varsity, sophomore, etc.), in sports not currently offered by the particular District high 

school as interscholastic sports, and whether there is sufficient competition within Public 

League and within that high school’s normal competitive region and geographic area to 

support the addition of those teams/sports. For any sport for which the District determines 

that there is not sufficient competition within that high school's normal competitive 

region, the District will take reasonable ongoing steps to develop students' interest and 

ability in that sport at schools throughout the District. These steps may include 

establishing club sports, exploring the feasibility of establishing competition in the 

District's normal competitive region and geographic area, and elevating such sports to 

interscholastic status when competition becomes available. New sports will be added at 

high schools beginning with the 2015-16 competitive season, and continuing annually 
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each season until such time as the high school has demonstrated to OCR compliance with 

one the Three-Part Test, but by no later than the 2018-19 competitive season. 

The Agreement also memorializes several steps already taken by the District to increase the 

information available to students, parents and members of the public about its sports 

offerings and to coordinate its interscholastic athletics programs; these steps are required to 

continue throughout OCR’s monitoring of the implementation of the Agreement. These 

steps included the creation of a new District web page that includes information about 

athletics opportunities throughout the District and identifies the five regional athletic 

directors responsible for the oversight of specific District sports.9

 The web page includes a 

specific notice of non-discrimination on the basis of sex in athletics, and states that a 

student, coach, parent, “or other interested party” may inquire about the possibility of 

adding a new sport, or adding a new level to an existing sport at a District high school. In 

addition, as noted above, the District has appointed a Title IX Sports Compliance 

Coordinator,

10 who in addition to communicating with OCR about the District’s 

implementation of the Agreement, is responsible for ensuring that all high schools 

procure and maintain current, complete and accurate athletics information. The web page 

states that inquiries about Title IX and sports should be directed to its new Coordinator 

and offers her phone number and email address, as well as the address of the Department 

of Sports Administration & Facilities.

Per the Agreement, the District has also created a new database to document the “realtime” participation of students in the District’s interscholastic athletics program; this new 

database will allow OCR to verify the District’s reported participation data throughout the 

monitoring. The Agreement requires the Athletic Directors of each high school to provide 

current and complete information about the interscholastic athletics program at their 

schools and to certify the accuracy of the data provided. As part of its efforts to ensure 

accountability by individual high schools in the implementation of the Agreement, the 

Agreement requires the District to annually notify the Athletic Director and Principal at 

each District high school that failure to comply with the terms of this Agreement and/or 

any staff member’s failure to cooperate with the Title IX Sports Compliance Coordinator 

could result in discipline consistent with the District’s employee discipline policies and 

procedures.

The Agreement also requires the District to develop, implement and publicize a 

procedure for students or other interested parties, such as coaches or parents, to use in 

requesting the addition of new sports or levels of sports at the District's high schools, and 

to provide annual notice to students, coaches, and other District staff of all of the sports 

offered at each high school. As noted, the website includes notice of this procedure and 

the available sports at each high school. The District also provided documentation to 

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http://www.cps.edu/PROGRAMS/BEFORE_AND_AFTER_SCHOOL/ATHLETICSSPORTS/Pages/Athle

ticsSports.aspx#
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OCR showing that at the start of the 2014-15 school year, it notified high school athletic 

directors, coaches, physical education teachers, principals, counselors and high school 

students that inquiries concerning the possibility of adding a new sport or a level of 

competition at an individual high school may be made by contacting the Title IX Sports 

Compliance Coordinator.

The District requires provision of annual Title IX training for high school athletic 

directors. The District provided documentation that, at the start of the 2014-15 school 

year, the District conducted a training session on Title IX for its high school athletic 

directors. The training session included directions for appropriately documenting and 

certifying the accuracy of athletic participation counts and notice that individual schools 

may not eliminate any sport from its program without approval of the District’s Title IX 

Sports Compliance Coordinator and its Office of Sports Administration. 

Finally, the Agreement states that the District understands that OCR does not require or 

encourage the elimination of any District athletic teams and that it seeks action from the 

District that does not involve the elimination of athletic opportunities, because nothing in 

Title IX or the Three-Part Test requires an institution to cut teams or reduce opportunities 

for students who are participating in interscholastic athletics in order to comply with the 

provisions of Title IX relating to the effective accommodation of the interests and 

abilities of male and female students.

Based on the Agreement, OCR is closing the investigation as of the date of this letter. 

OCR will monitor the implementation of the agreement until the District is in compliance 

with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq., and its 

implementing regulation, 34 C.F.R. § 106.41(c), which were at issue in this case.

In addition, OCR may initiate administrative enforcement or judicial proceedings to 

enforce the specific terms and obligations of this Agreement. Before initiating 

administrative enforcement (34 C.F.R. §§ 100.9, 100.10), or judicial proceedings to 

enforce this Agreement, OCR will give the District written notice of the alleged breach 

and sixty (60) calendar days to cure the alleged breach.

Further, please be advised that the District may not harass, coerce, intimidate or 

discriminate against any individual because he or she has filed a complaint or participated 

in the complaint resolution process. If this happens, the Complainant may file another 

complaint alleging such treatment.

Under the Freedom of information Act, it may be necessary to release this document and 

related correspondence and records upon request. In the event that OCR received such a 

request, we will seek to protect, to the extent provided by law, personally identifiable 

information, which, if released, could reasonably be expected to constitute an 

unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. 
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This letter sets forth OCR's determination in individual OCR cases. This letter is not a 

formal statement of OCR policy and should not be relied upon, cited, or construed as 

such. OCR's formal policy statements are approved by a duly authorized OCR official and 

made available to the public. The Complainant may file a private suit in federal court 

whether or not OCR finds a violation.

If you or your staff members have any questions regarding this matter, please do not 

hesitate to contact me or Judith E. Levitt, Deputy Chief Attorney, at 312-730-1560.

Sincerely, 

/s/ 

Ann Cook-Graver

Supervisory Attorney

Chicago Office 

cc: James Bebley, General Counsel

Susan O’Keefe, Deputy General Counsel 

Kathleen Gibbons, Senior Assistant General Counsel

Enclosure: Resolution Agreement
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APPENDIX

Male and Female Enrollment and Athletic Participation Rates by Sex

in the 84 high schools where girls were underrepresented in the District (2013-14 School Year)

(As reported to OCR by the District) 

High School

Student Enrollment Athletic Participation Percentage 

Point 

Disparity 

(ppd)

and 

Additional 

Participation 

Opportunities 

for Females

Male 

Number 

and 

Percent

Female 

Number and 

Percent

Total

Number 

Male 

Number 

and 

Percent

Female 

Number

and 

Percent

Total 

Number 

1 Al 

Raby

248

(48.34%)

265

(51.66%)

513 136

(56.90%)

103

(43.10%)

239 8.56 ppd

42 opp.

2 Albert Lane 

Tech

1,841

(44.68%)

2,279

(55.32%)

4120 838

(59.90%)

561

(40.10%)

1399 15.22 ppd

477 opp.

3 Alcott 142

(50.53%)

139

(49.47%)

281 95

(51.63%)

89

(48.37%)

184 1.10 ppd

4 opp.

4 Austin 

Bus/Entre

95

(51.08%)

91

(48.92)

186 24

(68.57%)

11

(31.43%)

35 17.49 ppd

12 opp.

5 Austin 

Poly

129

(65.82%)

67

(34.18%)

196 56

(88.89%)

7

(11.11%)

63 23.07 ppd

22 opp.

6 Back of the 

Yards

142

(50.53%)

139

(49.47%)

281 80

(52.29%)

73

(47.71%)

153 1.76 ppd

5 opp.

7 Benito 

Juarez

815

(48.40%)

869

(51.60%)

1684 336

(55.72%)

267

(44.28%)

603 7.32 ppd

91 opp.

8 Bowen 254

(54.74%)

210

(45.26%)

464 156

(61.42%)

98

(38.58%)

254 6.68 ppd

31 opp.

9 Bronzeville 197

(38.18%)

319

(61.82%)

516 59

(53.15%)

52

(46.85%)

111 14.97 ppd

44 opp.

10 C. 

Schurz

1,292

(54.31%)

1,087

(45.69%)

2,379 349

(63.92%)

197

(36.08%)

546 9.61 ppd

97 opp.

11 C. 

Prosser

718

(47.42%)

796

(52.58%)

1,514 303

(58.38%)

216

(41.62%)

519 10.96 ppd

120 opp.

12 C. 

Steinmetz

942

(52.07%)

867

(47.93%)

1,809 333

(53.19%)

293

(46.81%)

626 1.12 ppd

13 opp.

13 Chicago 

Academy

237

(45.75%)

281

(54.25%)

518 172

(56.95%)

130

(43.05%)

302 11.20 ppd

74 opp.

14 Chicago 

Agricultural

317

(48.69%)

334

(51.31%)

651 283

(63.17%)

165

(36.83%)

448 14.48 ppd

133 opp.

15 Chicago 

Military 

220

(54.32%)

185

(45.68%)

405 145

(68.72%)

66

(31.28%)

211 14.40 ppd

56 opp.

16 Chicago 

Vocational 

511

(51.62%)

479

(48.38%)

990 234

(66.10%)

120

(33.90%)

354 14.48 ppd

99 opp.

17 C. 

Fenger

213

(50.59%)

208

(49.41%)

421 129

(51.81%)

120

(48.19%)

249 1.22 ppd

6 opp.

18 Collins 

Academy

184

(47.92%)

200

(52.08%)

384 117

(68.42%)

54

(31.58%)

171 20.50 ppd

73 opp.

19 Dan H 

Williams

75

(25.00%)

225

(75.00%)

300 39

(41.49%)

55

(58.51%)

94 16.49 ppd

62 opp.

20 D. Farragut 

Career

595

(54.09%)

505

(45.91%)

1,100 148

(65.20%)

79

(34.80%)

227 11.11 ppd

47 opp.
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High School

Student Enrollment Athletic Participation Percentage 

Point 

Disparity 

(ppd)

and 

Additional 

Participation 

Opportunities 

for Females

Male 

Number 

and 

Percent

Female 

Number and 

Percent

Total

Number 

Male 

Number 

and 

Percent

Female 

Number

and 

Percent

Total 

Number 

21 Dr. ML 

King Jr.

326

(40.55%)

478

(59.45%)

804 228

(55.34%)

184

(44.66%)

412 14.79 ppd

150 opp.

22 Dyett 48

(57.83%)

35

(42.17%)

83 20

(58.82%)

14

(41.18%)

34 0.99 ppd

1 opp.

23 E. Tilden 

Career

200

(57.97%)

145

(42.03%)

345 51

(71.83%)

20

(28.17%)

71 13.86 ppd

17 opp.

24 E. 

Foreman

857

(56.87%)

650

(43.13%)

1,507 245

(72.27%)

94

(27.73%)

339 15.40 ppd

92 opp.

25 E. Richards 

Career

189

(49.09%)

196

(50.91%)

385 100

(52.91%)

89

(47.09%)

189 3.82 ppd

15 opp.

26 E.

Hirsch

151

(55.31%)

122

(44.69%)

273 16

(88.89%)

2

(11.11%)

18 33.58 ppd

11 opp.

27 E.

Solorio

565

(52.90%)

503

(47.10%)

1,068 502

(56.40%)

388

(43.60%)

890 3.50 ppd

59 opp.

28 Fr. 

Douglass

151

(51.89%)

140

(48.11%)

291 111

(67.27%)

54

(32.73%)

165 15.38 ppd

49 opp.

29 F. Von 

Steuben

821

(49.28%)

845

(50.72%)

1,666 328

(51.49%)

309

(48.51%)

637 2.21 ppd

29 opp.

30 G.

Corliss

270

(54.33%)

227

(45.67%)

497 230

(70.55%)

96

(29.45%)

326 16.22 ppd

97 opp.

31 G. 

Washington

772

(49.39%)

791

(50.61%)

1,563 365

(55.47%)

293

(44.53%)

658 6.08 ppd

81 opp.

32 G.

Westinghse

391

(34.76%)

734

(65.24%)

1,125 241

(56.97%)

182

(43.03%)

423 22.21 ppd

270 opp.

33 Gr.

Lawndale

182

(51.12%)

174

(48.88%)

356 96

(60.38%)

63

(39.62%)

159 9.26 ppd

29 opp.

34 G. 

Hubbard

836

(51.76%)

779

(48.24%)

1,615 347

(60.56%)

226

(39.44%)

573 8.80 ppd

97 opp.

35 Gwendolyn 

Brooks

300

(38.31%)

483

(61.69%)

783 218

(51.29%)

207

(48.71%)

425 12.98 ppd

144 opp.

36 HS of 

Leadership

52

(38.81%)

82

(61.19%)

134 33

(47.14%)

37

(52.86%)

70 8.33 ppd

15 opp.

37 Hope 

College Prep

178

(45.52%)

213

(54.48%)

391 75

(62.50%)

45

(37.50%)

120 16.98 ppd

45 opp.

38 Hyde 

Park

487

(48.65%)

514

(51.35%)

1,001 182

(67.66%)

87

(32.34%)

269 19.01 ppd

105opp.

39 J.F.

Kennedy

773

(51.33%)

733

(48.67%)

1,506 276

(58.85%)

193

(41.15%)

469 7.52 ppd

69 opp.

40 J.

Hancock

441

(47.52%)

487

(52.48%)

928 161

(51.77%)

150

(48.23%)

311 4.25 ppd

28 opp.

41 J.

Harlan

500

(54.47%)

418

(45.53%)

918 172

(68.53%)

79

(31.47%)

251 14.06 ppd

65 opp.

42 J.

Marshall

358

(57.37%)

266

(42.63%)

624 229

(77.63%)

66

(22.37%)

295 20.26 ppd

104 opp.

43 Kelvyn 475 415 890 174 96 270 11.07 ppd
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High School

Student Enrollment Athletic Participation Percentage 

Point 

Disparity 

(ppd)

and 

Additional 

Participation 

Opportunities 

for Females

Male 

Number 

and 

Percent

Female 

Number and 

Percent

Total

Number 

Male 

Number 

and 

Percent

Female 

Number

and 

Percent

Total 

Number 

Park (53.37%) (46.63%) (64.44%) (35.56%) 56 opp.

44 Kenwood 833

(45.92%)

981

(54.08%)

1,814 247

(57.71%)

181

(42.29%)

428 11.79 ppd

110 opp.

45 Lake View 741

(51.60%)

695

(48.40%)

1,436 487

(58.32%)

348

(41.68%)

835 6.72 ppd

109 opp.

46 Lincoln 

Park

1,006

(45.11%)

1,224

(54.89%)

2,230 405

(54.29%)

341

(45.71%)

746 9.18 ppd

152 opp.

47 Manley 

Career

241

(53.56%)

209

(46.44%)

450 180

(67.92%)

85

(32.08%)

265 14.36 ppd

71 opp.

48 Marie S. 

Curie

1,521

(51.01%)

1,461

(48.99%)

2,982 369

(55.16%)

300

(44.84%)

669 4.15 ppd

54 opp.

49 Marine 

Military

256

(63.84%)

145

(36.16%)

401 174

(71.31%)

70

(28.69%)

244 7.47 ppd

29 opp.

50 Michele 

Clark

216

(43.29%)

283

(56.71%)

499 158

(63.20%)

92

(36.80%)

250 19.91 ppd

115 opp.

51 Morgan 

Park

667

(46.61%)

764

(53.39)

1,431 339

(58.45%)

241

(41.55%)

580 11.84 ppd

147 opp.

52 Multicultura

l Academy

151

(53.93%)

129

(46.07%)

280 40

(71.43%)

16

(28.57%)

56 17.50 ppd

18 opp.

53 N. Simeon 

Career

645

(43.97%)

822

(56.03%)

1,467 317

(67.74%)

151

(32.26%)

468 23.77 ppd

253 opp.

54 N. Senn 572

(49.23%)

590

(50.77%)

1,162 155

(52.90%)

138

(47.10%)

293 3.67 ppd

22 opp.

55 Northside 

College Prep

449

(42.00%)

620

(58.00%)

1,069 413

(51.00%)

397

(49.00%)

810 9.00 ppd

173 opp.

56 Ogden 

Intl

373

(47.58%)

411

(52.42%)

784 124

(48.25%)

133

(51.75%)

257 0.67 ppd

4 opp.

57 Orr 376

(58.11%)

271

(41.89%)

647 210

(66.46%)

106

(33.54%)

316 8.35 ppd

45 opp.

58 P. 

Dunbar

509

(42.85%)

679

(57.15%)

1,188 240

(59.85%)

161

(40.15%)

401 17.00 ppd

159 opp.

59 P. 

Robeson

209

(56.18%)

163

(43.82%)

372 129

(83.77%)

25

(16.23%)

154 27.59 ppd

76 opp.

60 P. 

Julian

513

(48.53%)

544

(51.47%)

1,057 187

(73.33%)

68

(26.67%)

255 24.80 ppd

130 opp.

61 Phoenix 

Military

253

(50.91%)

244

(49.09%)

497 183

(62.46%)

110

(37.54%)

293 11.55 ppd

66 opp.

62 R Crane 

Tech

42

(28.19%)

107

(71.81%)

149 15

(60.00%)

10

(40.00%)

25 31.81 ppd

28 opp.

63 R. 

Amundsen

673

(53.16%)

593

(46.84%)

1,266 409

(65.13%)

219

(34.87%)

628 11.97 ppd

141 opp.

64 R. 

Lindbloom

482

(41.70%)

674

(58.30%)

1,156 266

(49.81%)

268

(50.19%)

534 8.11 ppd

104 opp.

65 Roberto 

Clemente

401

(57.20%)

300

(42.80%)

701 207

(71.38%)

83

(28.62%)

290 14.18 ppd

72 opp.
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High School

Student Enrollment Athletic Participation Percentage 

Point 

Disparity 

(ppd)

and 

Additional 

Participation 

Opportunities 

for Females

Male 

Number 

and 

Percent

Female 

Number and 

Percent

Total

Number 

Male 

Number 

and 

Percent

Female 

Number

and 

Percent

Total 

Number 

66 R 

Sullivan

356

(50.28%)

352

(49.72%)

708 140

(54.05%)

119

(45.95%)

259 3.77 ppd

19 opp.

67 Sarah 

Goode

245

(53.03%)

217

(46.97%)

462 109

(68.55%)

50

(31.45%)

159 15.52 ppd

47 opp.

68 South Shore 

International

216

(37.76%)

356

(62.24%)

572 152

(51.35%)

144

(48.65%)

296 13.59 ppd

107 opp.

69 Spry 

Community

87

(46.03%)

102

(53.97%)

189 43

(51.19%)

41

(48.81%)

84 5.16 ppd

9 opp.

70 S.

Mather

869

(53.54%)

754

(46.46%)

1,623 388

(58.35%)

277

(41.65%)

665 4.81 ppd

60 opp.

71 TEAM 

Englewood

195

(47.91%)

212

(52.09%)

407 90

(56.96%)

68

(43.04%)

158 9.05 ppd

30 opp.

72 T. 

Roosevelt

714

(49.69%)

723

(50.31%)

1,437 224

(52.58%)

202

(47.42%)

426 2.89 ppd

25 opp.

73 Thomas 

Kelley

1,318

(51.95%)

1,219

(48.05%)

2,537 367

(60.36%)

241

(39.64%)

608 8.41 ppd

98 opp.

74 Uplift 

Community

198

(55.93%)

156

(44.07%)

354 97

(62.58%)

58

(37.42%)

155 6.65 ppd

18 opp.

75 VOISE 

Academy

153

(44.87%)

188

(55.13%)

341 70

(64.22%)

39

(35.78%)

109 19.35 ppd

47 opp.

76 Walter 

Payton Prep

338

(41.27%)

481

(58.73%)

819 298

(50.94%)

287

(49.06%)

585 9.67 ppd

137 opp.

77 Wells 

Community

277

(46.48%)

319

(53.52%)

596 108

(60.00%)

72

(40.00%)

180 13.52 ppd

52 opp.

78 Wendell 

Phillips

365

(54.48%)

305

(45.52%)

670 285

(59.87%)

191

(40.13%)

476 5.39 ppd

47 opp.

79 Whitney 

Young

957

(43.58%)

1,239

(56.42%)

2,196 527

(56.61%)

404

(43.39%)

931 13.03 ppd

278 opp.

80 Wm. H 

Taft

1,639

(51.30%)

1,556

(48.70%)

3,195 518

(60.16%)

343

(39.84%)

861 8.86 ppd

149 opp.

81 Wm.

Bogan

596

(53.45%)

519

(46.55%)

1,115 246

(67.03%)

121

(32.97%)

367 13.58 ppd

93 opp.

82 Wm.

Jones

433

(38.52%)

691

(61.48%)

1,124 293

(50.96%)

282

(49.04%)

575 12.44 ppd

186 opp.

83 Wm. Rainey

Harper

260

(53.94%)

222

(46.06%)

482 135

(71.43%)

54

(28.57%)

189 17.49 ppd

61 opp.

84 World 

Language

181

(51.27%)

172

(48.73%)

353 46

(59.74%)

31

(40.26%)

77 8.47 ppd

13 opp.