Article: South Loop School races focus on local enrollment Key issue in 2 council races: recruiting neighborhood kids

A group of South Loop residents is throwing hefty resources into today's local school council election, in hopes of convincing its upscale neighbors that fresh blood can help improve the traditionally high-poverty, low-performing South Loop School.

The school is inside the pricey Dearborn Park II town house complex at 1212 S. Plymouth, but most students come from poorer families who live between 18th Street and Cermak, including some from the Hilliard Homes, a public housing development.

Under new boundaries, many of those students will go in the fall to the new, highly anticipated $47 million National Teachers Academy at Cermak and Clark. South Loop, which has declining enrollment, will ...

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