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CPS Elementary Sports Program Overview

Chicago Public Schools is excited to offer a robust elementary sports program, offered to all 5-8 graders at CPS district-managed and charter schools.

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is committed to ensuring all students have the opportunity to participate in school sports. Not only does participation in school sports maintain mental and physical health, but it also develops qualities such as good sportsmanship, integrity, respect, and teamwork. To ensure all elementary school students who wish to participate in a sports program have the opportunity to do so, CPS has made some changes to our elementary sports offerings to ensure we can continue to maintain our no-cut policy.  Elementary sports (CPS Score!) will now be broken up into two programs, CPS Score! and CPS Score!+. The focus of CPS Score! has changed to be a skill development league that will allow students to compete within their own school. CPS Score!+ is the new competition-focused interscholastic league for all elementary sports.

Schools participating in our elementary sports program will have their teams automatically enrolled in CPS Score!+. If a school reaches the maximum number of participants for each team per sport, the school will add a CPS Score! team(s), and students will be placed in one of the two programs based on their age and skill level. CPS Score!+ teams will compete on Saturdays, and CPS Score! teams will compete on during the week. Only one team, per grade level, per gender is allowed to compete on CPS SCORE!+ Saturdays.

Soccer Basketball Camp 1

CPS SCORE!+

  • Interscholastic competition-focused program for fifth through eighth graders geared towards student athletes who want to compete at the highest level against other city-wide elementary schools.
  • SCORE!+ will practice Thursdays and Friday with game days on Saturdays.
  • The SCORE!+ Athletic Program Administrator (APA) will create schedules for their specific networks/conferences.
  • Teams will be broken up into fifth/sixth grade and seventh/eighth grade levels for both girls and boys.
  • SCORE!+ will have a seventh/eighth grade City Championship.

CPS SCORE!

  • All-inclusive participation-based program focused on skill development, sportsmanship, and intraschool competition for fifth through eighth graders.
  • SCORE! will practice Mondays and Tuesdays with intraschool game days to be played any day of the week.
  • Coaches will create an intraschool schedule.
  • Teams will be broken up into fifth/sixth grade and seventh/eighth grade levels for both girls and boys.
Summer Basketball Camp 1

Programs Offered

Program Registration

After your school has ‘opted-in’ to your sports season, parents can register their students for each sport of their choice below!

Program Hard Copy Waivers / Consent

After your school has ‘opted-in’ to your sports season, parents can register their students for each sport of their choice below!

Program Schedule

Please click the button below to view the 2023-2024 Elementary Sports Schedules.

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