Originally Posted by
Amanda
From what I can gather, Coonley School recently received a grant to create a Regional Gifted Center. That's great, of course, if you live in the neighborhood and your child tests into the RGC.
But will that improve the school overall? I'm hearing that Bell received the same grant and created an RGC, which improved the school overall and made the neighborhood and the school all the more desirable.
Apparently people are now flocking to the Coonley neighborhood boundaries with the thought that Bell will be the same. I might be one of them, but I want to make sure I understand correctly what is going on.
Coonley rates at 8 with Great Schools, which is pretty good, but it's not currently as high as some of the "big name" neighborhood schools on the Chicago Magazine ratings list (Bell/Burley/Audubon/etc). Will that change once the RGC is in place? And how long will it be before the school is "great"? (Or is it already great?)
I'm a newbie to all of this, so thank you for your patience!