The Office is responsible for:
- Managing and overseeing the application, testing, selection, projection, and transfer process for all district-managed and designated charter schools and programs
- Coordinating and executing testing for selective enrollment elementary and high schools
- Facilitating principal discretion process for selective enrollment high schools
- Providing training and communication about navigating the application process, including the annual creation of the Elementary and High School Guides
- Training clerks and counselors on best practices related to the application process
- Coordinating the annual appeals process to ensure that all applications were accurately processed during the application period and remedy any possible CPS errors
- Providing year-round information, guidance, and assistance regarding the application process to parents, school staff, administrators, and community residents
- Managing early entrance to kindergarten and first-grade processes
- Managing whole-subject acceleration and single-subject acceleration