Lenart Regional Gifted Center
| Ted Lenart Regional Gifted Center | |
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Lenart Regional Gifted Center. School entrance
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8101 South LaSalle St. Chicago, Illinois 60620 United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°54′25.04″N 87°40′40.37″W / 41.9069556°N 87.6778806°WCoordinates: 41°54′25.04″N 87°40′40.37″W / 41.9069556°N 87.6778806°W |
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| Type | Selective Admissions School, magnet elementary school |
| Motto | Together we make our school a success! |
| Established | 1988 |
| Oversight | Chicago Public Schools |
| Principal | Angela Sims |
| Grades | K-8 |
| Gender | Co-ed |
| Number of students | 221 |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Color(s) | Red and white |
| Nickname | The Lions |
| Website | www |
Ted Lenart Regional Gifted Center is located in the Chatham neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Lenart School serves grades K-8 with a selective enrollment program for gifted students. The school is part of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system. The students and its mascot are referred to as the Lions.
Lenart, along with Keller and Edison, is one of the three fully dedicated Regional Gifted Centers (RGC) within the City of Chicago's Public School district. The RGCs provide accelerated pace instruction generally up to two years above grade level. The RGC curriculum focus is on critical thinking, logical reasoning and general problem solving skills. In addition to this essential foundation, the Lenart curriculum includes courses in French, Latin and philosophy. RGC admission selection is determined by the Chicago Public Schools Office of Academic Enhancement.
Lenart Regional Gifted Center occupies the facility which once housed Amelia Dunne Hookway School. This building, which sits on 4.2 acres of land, was built in 1928 in the Gothic Revival style which was then popular. Inside, it has twelve New Deal era wall murals, four large ones representing historical periods of the United States (conquest, colonization, western expansion and modernity) and eight smaller ones representing local history and entitled "History of Chicago" (1939). These murals were commissioned for the school by Illinois Arts and Crafts Projects from Ralph (Ralf) Henricksen under the Works Progress Administration program. Due to changing neighborhood demographics, the building became underutilized as an elementary school. Hookway Elementary School closed in 1981. A new school serving as a transitional high school for ninth graders, Cecil Partee Academic Preparatory Center, took its place. The transitional program was relocated to Chicago Vocational Career Academy to make room for a new program, whose sole objective was to serve gifted and academically talented students. After extensive renovation to the structure by the architectural firm JLA, the school reopened in 1988 to house the Lenart Regional Gifted Center exclusively. In 1999, yet another major building renovation was completed by SWWB Architects at a cost of 5.7 million dollars. Lenart school is named after Chicago Public School System Administrator Ted Lenart, who was instrumental in starting gifted schools in Chicago..
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