Chalkbeat Chicago

When decisions about high school acceptances post later today on GoCPS, 16.2 percent of Chicago eighth-graders will get their top pick of the city’s most competitive test-in high schools, a 2 percentage point increase from last year’s 14.4 percent.

In all, 24.2 percent of students will get accepted into one of their top three selective enrollment choices, according to data provided Friday by Chicago Public Schools. Chicago has 11 selective enrollment high schools, and seats at these schools are among the most competitive in the district. Students can rank up to 20 choices from among 250 programs in more than 130 schools  — and among those they can choose a maximum of six selective enrollment schools — on a universal application system called GoCPS that Chicago rolled out last year...