Selective enrollment high schools no better at closing achievement gap than regular schools, study finds

Admission into Chicago’s selective enrollment high schools does not help close the achievement gap between students from high- and low-poverty neighborhoods and may actually decrease the chances high-poverty students apply to or attend selective colleges, according to a new study.

The University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, along with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, published a report this month examining whether or not students in Chicago Public Schools’ selective enrollment high schools (SEHS) who come from lower-income communities are able to narrow the achievement gap with their high-income peers...