Chicago City Wire

Despite dismal student performance on annual exams covering math and reading, Chicago Public School graduation rates remain high, according to a Chicago City Wire analysis of 2016 data from the Illinois State Board of Education.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel boasted about the district's graduation rates and test scores in September, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

“These are statistics, I would hope the state of Illinois would actually see the success of what’s happening in Chicago, and, rather than run it down, hold it up. Be proud of it,” Emanuel said.

But data shows a staggering difference between the rate of students deemed "ready for the next level" by state standards and those graduating high school.

The end-of-year tests known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, are administered to third- through eighth-graders in Illinois, testing them based on Common Core standards. High-schoolers also took the tests through 2016. 

A composite score combines the results of the subject tests. Students who passed either met or exceeded expectations.

Schools' graduation fraud index shows the difference between the composite passing rate and the graduation rate.

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Chicago Public Schools graduation fraud index

Chicago Public High School	Annual exam pass rate (%)	Graduation rate (%)	Graduation fraud index
Urban Preparatory Chtr Englewood High School	0	93.6	-93.6
Clark Academy Preparatory Magnet High School	4.1	93.1	-89
Legal Prep Charter Academies	7.2	95.7	-88.5
Marine Leadership Academy at Ames	11.6	100	-88.4
Bronzeville Scholastic High School	3.7	91.7	-88
Austin College & Career Academy	0	87.7	-87.7
Urban Prep-Bronzeville	4	90.7	-86.7
Team Englewood Comm Academy High School	0	84.1	-84.1
Young Womens Leadership Chartr High School	5.5	89.1	-83.6
Simeon Career Academy High School	8.2	91.5	-83.3
World Language High School	10.7	93.6	-82.9
Uplift Community High School	4.9	86.4	-81.5
Amandla Charter School	0.9	82.4	-81.5
Sarah E. Goode Stem Academy	15	96.4	-81.4
Williams Medical Preparatory High School	11.1	92.2	-81.1
Raby High School	4.3	84.3	-80
Urban Prep Academies West	1.1	81	-79.9
North-Grand High School	7	86.8	-79.8
Dunbar Vocational Career Academy High School	3.8	83.4	-79.6
Spry Community Links High School	8.6	86.3	-77.7
Catalyst Elem Charter School	16.2	93.3	-77.1
Ihsca Charter High School	9.8	86.8	-77
Rickover Naval Academy High School	13.8	90.2	-76.4
Julian High School	4.3	80.7	-76.4
Chicago Military Academy	22.5	96.2	-73.7
Juarez Community Academy High School	11.9	84.4	-72.5
Ace Technical Charter High School	1.1	73.5	-72.4
Collins Academy High School	1.2	72.7	-71.5
School of Social Justice High School	12.4	83.8	-71.4
Chicago Academy Adv Tech High School	9.9	81.2	-71.3
Chicago Academy High School	20.5	91.5	-71
Carver Military Academy High School	24.9	95.7	-70.8
Washington G High School	8.6	79.1	-70.5
Chicago High School for Agricult Sciences	21.2	91.6	-70.4
Schurz High School	4.6	74.6	-70
Wells Community Academy High School	5.4	75.2	-69.8
Lake View High School	16.7	86.4	-69.7
South Shore Intl Col Preparatory High School	22	90.5	-68.5
Phoenix Military Academy High School	27.8	95.2	-67.4
Alcott Humanities High School	18.9	86.2	-67.3
Curie Metropolitan High School	10.5	77.7	-67.2
Infinity Math  Science and Tech High School	22	88.9	-66.9
Air Force Academy High School	14.1	80.2	-66.1
Von Steuben Metro Science High School	26.4	91.3	-64.9
Kelly High School	7	71.8	-64.8
Clemente Community Academy High School	11.5	75.5	-64
Steinmetz College Prep	8.2	71.8	-63.6
Epic Academy High School	6.4	69.6	-63.2
Hubbard High School	16.2	79	-62.8
Chicago Vocational Career Academy High School	5.4	67.6	-62.2
Hyde Park Academy High School	1.7	63.7	-62
Sullivan High School	4.6	66.1	-61.5
Roosevelt High School	6.8	66.9	-60.1
Foreman High School	6	65.8	-59.8
Morgan Park High School	16.2	75.8	-59.6
Prosser Career Academy High School	35.2	94.1	-58.9
Bogan High School	8.7	66.6	-57.9
Corliss High School	1.7	59.5	-57.8
Douglass Academy High School	0	57.6	-57.6
Chicago Math and Sci Elem Charter	31.9	88.5	-56.6
Richards Career Academy High School	2.6	59.1	-56.5
Phillips Academy High School	3.2	59.4	-56.2
Kelvyn Park High School	5.5	61	-55.5
Solorio Academy High School	29.8	85.1	-55.3
Chicago Academy for the Arts	36	90.8	-54.8
Kennedy High School	16.3	70.8	-54.5
Farragut Career Academy Hs	6	60.4	-54.4
King College Prep	41.5	95.7	-54.2
Multicultural Academy of Scholarship High School	6.2	60.4	-54.2
Taft High School	30.6	83.4	-52.8
Harper High School	2.3	54.3	-52
Harlan Community Academy	6.6	58.5	-51.9
Mather High School	23.2	74.5	-51.3
Bowen Environmental Studies High School	5.1	55.1	-50
Fenger Academy High School	6.1	55.3	-49.2
Gage Park High School	5.7	53.9	-48.2
Senn High School	27.4	75	-47.6
Lincoln Park High School	36.1	83.5	-47.4
Marshall Metropolitan High School	10.6	57.4	-46.8
Lindblom Math and Science Academy High School	48.2	93.9	-45.7
Ogden Int High School	44.3	89.6	-45.3
Amundsen High School	36	79.4	-43.4
Hope Community Academy	6	48.1	-42.1
Orr Academy High School	2.2	42	-39.8
Robeson High School	1.4	41	-39.6
Manley Career Academy High School	0.8	40.1	-39.3
Brooks College Prep	59	95.8	-36.8
Westinghouse High School	59.4	94.6	-35.2
Hirsch Metropolitan High School	1	35.7	-34.7
Kenwood Academy High School	49.5	83.8	-34.3
Hancock College Preparatory High School	56.9	90.9	-34
Jones Prep High School	72.5	99.3	-26.8
Chicago Excel Academy High School	0	23.5	-23.5
Lane Technical High School	81.6	93.7	-12.1
Payton College Preparatory High School	91	97.5	-6.5
Young Magnet High School	90.8	96.4	-5.6
Northside College Preparatory High School	100	96.1	3.9
Chicago Virtual Charter School	30.5	2.3	28.2

Source: Illinois State Board of Education