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Our Mission: We do what ever it takes to create future leaders that will impact their community.
Our Vision: To create lifelong learners and leaders of tomorrow. Our Motto: Whatever It Takes View our school's Continuous Improvement Work Plan
Our Story: In the late-1970s, developers turned their eyes to the city's South side, where there were large tracts of vacant land located by the Robert Taylor Housing Projects. However, there was an increased need for parents to have options outside of their current neighborhood schools. This new demand to have more options of Selective Enrollment Schools encouraged the Chicago Public School system to develop a magnet school in the Greater Grand Crossing area, and after that a new school building was built at 5255 S. State Street.
A new principal was selected, and the programming was expanded to include a free Child Parent Center preschool program, a selective enrollment gifted program and regular education magnet school programs.
This expanded programming was attractive to the families across the city and the selective enrollment allowed the school to bring in diversity from outside of the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.
The new administration quickly revamped the curriculum to provide a more challenging standards-based academic environment. Meanwhile, they took advantage of the extracurricular activities provided for student enrichment which focused on the fine and performing arts, athletics, and developing a culture of service and leadership. The new emphasis on academics and the social and emotional needs of the students yielded year-after-year increases in test scores and parent satisfaction.
The response to BAC has been phenomenal. The success of the school has become a selling point as an Selective Enrollment School. Even though the school is still part of the community it still afforded more diversity in the way that it was originally envisioned, with the school building itself being utilized for educational and community programs.
Furthermore, schools throughout the Chicago Public School system look to Beasley Academic Center as a model for how to increase academic achievement on standardized test scores while meeting the social and emotional needs of the students. Everyone at our school is proud of its successes, our students, our teachers and our parents. We feel that our school mascot, the Bee, reflects both the pride that we have in ourselves and our school, and the resourcefulness, hard-working, and creativity to continue building our school community.
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