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Magnet Schools in Cook County, Illinois

Cook County has 197 schools identified in the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection as operating a magnet program. 166 are whole-school magnets, and 31 offer magnet programs to part of the student population.

  • 197 magnet schools and programs
  • 166 whole-school magnets
  • 31 schools with a magnet program
  • 10 cities and towns

Magnet status is based on the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection, the latest federal collection available for magnet classification.

School enrollment, grades and contact details are from NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25.

Magnet schools in Cook County

Listed alphabetically. Nothing here is ranked, scored or ordered by anything the federal collections do not record.

What “magnet” means on this page

● Whole-school magnet

Whole-school magnet

The magnet program applies across the school. Every student attending is part of it.

◦ Magnet program

Magnet program

The school offers a magnet program to part of its student population, alongside its other classes.

Other historical or unverified magnet listings

These schools were identified as magnet schools in older source data but are not confirmed by the latest available federal magnet collection.

Other schools listed in Cook County

These are the other schools this directory holds for Cook County. They are not identified as magnet schools in the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection.

Magnet schools elsewhere in Illinois

All magnet schools in Illinois

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