The charter school has garnered national recognition for providing minority students with the academic skills necessary to be “college bound.” Last spring, 240 students had college acceptance letters in their hands before receiving their diploma. An accomplishment that Mayor Rahm Emanuel considers to be phenomenal. The Chicago mayor delivered a moving speech at the 2014 […]
Chicago’s Urban Prep Academy has again achieved a 100 percent acceptance rate for its 2014 class. It’s the fifth year in a row the school has achieved the benchmark. This year, 240 students were accepted into four-year colleges and universities. “I got into a lot of different schools but right now I’m thinking about four […]
Urban Prep Academy is continuing its record of success. For the last three years, all graduation seniors from the charter school’s Englewood campus have been college bound. This year, the inaugural graduating class of the West Campus has accomplished the same goal. In all, 167 seniors, all African American males, have been accepted to a […]
For the third year in a row, every senior at Urban Prep Academy, the only all-African-American, all-male charter high school in Chicago, has been accepted to college, the school’s leaders said. The academy also said that 83 percent of its first graduating class in 2010 has re-enrolled in a second year of college, a rebuttal […]
Chicago high school comprised entirely of African-American students will be sending all of its 104 graduating seniors to college for the second year in a row. Urban Prep Academy is the nation’s first all boys public charter high school. Mason Fuller is one of the graduating seniors. He received a full athletic scholarship to Northern […]
