There’s more to a school than its scores.

Homeroom pairs official CPS facts with the everyday details families care about, from start times and aftercare cost to language programs, student support, and the arts, for every elementary school in Chicago, starting with your neighborhood school.

Or search your address to find your neighborhood school, or by ZIP code to see all the schools in your area. We don’t save your address.

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Use the search box to jump straight to a school profile, or add a ZIP code and hit Filter to narrow the directory below.

What Homeroom Can Do

Search every CPS elementary school

Browse elementary schools by name, ZIP code or on the map, and open a profile to see start times, programs and daily life.

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Add what you know

Know your school's aftercare cost or recess routine? Add or update a detail and help the next family out.

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Add schools to your tour list

Bookmark the schools you are curious about and keep them together in one tour list.

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Take notes on a tour

Each school on your list gets a private notepad with an optional tour checklist. It saves as you type.

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Build your lottery list

Put your school choices in order so you are ready when the GoCPS application window opens.

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Catch open houses

See upcoming open houses families have shared, with dates, times and signup links.

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Make sense of GoCPS

Answer to the lottery questions everyone asks, plus a step-by-step enrollment guide.

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Parents and verified CPS staff keep Homeroom current. Add a start time, an aftercare cost, or just confirm that what's listed is still true.