1. Welcome to A.N. Pritzker School A Regional Gifted Center, Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster School, and a Neighborhood School Home of the Wildcats

3. Our Programs Preschool for All Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster Program Regional Gifted Center

4. ◦ Free, ½ day program for 3 and 4 year olds; ◦ Children must be 3 or 4 by September 1 st to be eligible; ◦ Children are chosen through a lottery system; ◦ Currently sessions are 2½ hours in length  Morning session is from 9:30 am-12:00 pm  Afternoon session is from 12:45 pm-3:15 pm.

5.  Kindergarten through 8 th grade.  Challenging curriculum with fine arts integration.  Program includes: ◦ Band ◦ Ceramics ◦ Dance ◦ Drama ◦ Music ◦ Piano ◦ Visual Arts

6.  Interdisciplinary  School Wide  Each class selected a “literary master piece”  Students composed original music and created works of art that related to their literary master piece

7. Students have an opportunity to participate in: ◦ 2012 Annual Musical Production: Fiddler on the Roof ◦ 2012 Musical Production: 101 Dalmatians ◦ Annual Visual Arts Project ◦ Ceramic Classes ◦ Drama Classes ◦ Dance Classes ◦ Violin Classes ◦ Guitar Classes ◦ Piano Classes ◦ Pritzker School of Rock

9.  Kindergarten through 8 th grade;  Rigorous curriculum—1 to 2 grade levels ahead;  Curriculum focus on inquiry based, student centered learning;  One of only a few schools in the Chicago Public School system that has Regional Gifted and Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster Program.

10.  85.7% of Pritzker students met or exceeded state standards on the 2010-11 Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT)  Earned Illinois Spotlight School Award for 2008-09 and 2009-10  Earned an Level 1 (Excellent) Performance Management Rating for 2009-10, 2010-2011  In 2010-11, 72% of our 8 th graders who applied for admission to selective enrollment high schools were accepted  Our graduates are accepted to many of CPS’s high- performing high schools such as:  Chi Arts  Jones College Prep  Lane Tech  Noble Street Charter Schools  Lincoln Park  NorthSide College Prep  Walter Payton  Westinghouse  Whitney Young

11. 2011 School Report Card

13.  8 to 9 PTO Before School Care  Battle of the Books  Boys’ and Girls’ Basketball  Boys’ and Girls’ Soccer  Boys’ Softball and Girls’ Fast Pitch Softball  Chess Wizards  Chess Scholars  Chicago Children’s Choir  Community Service Club  Flag Football  Jewish Community Center (JCC)  Mad Science  Multilingual Chicago  Piano Lessons  Puppet Theatre  Stock Market Club  Stretch and Grow Fitness Club  Track  Volleyball

14.  Parents and guardians play a major role in our success as a school. Here are some ways that YOU can get involved:  Bilingual Advisory Council (BAC)  Friends of Pritzker (FOP)  Local School Council (LSC)  Parent Advisory Council (PAC)  Parent Teacher Organization (PTO)  Power of Parents (POP)