Application Information

CICS ChicagoQuest will serve grades 6 to 9 in the 2013-2014 school year, and will expand by one grade each year until it becomes a 6^th – 12^th grade high school.

Any child residing within the city of Chicago who is in the appropriate grade is eligible to attend CICS ChicagoQuest.

Parents/families must complete a New Student Application and mail, drop off, or fax it to:

CICS ChicagoQuest
(c/o Chicago International Charter School)
11 E. Adams, Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60603
Phone: (312) 651-5000
Fax: (312) 651-5001

Important: ChicagoQuest applicants must use the Elementary School Application.

Admission to the school is random. All students are selected by a lottery. If there are more applications than spots available, a public, computerized lottery will be held. Students not accepted during the lottery will be placed on a waiting list in the order their name was selected in the lottery. Students with siblings accepted through the lottery will be given preference, although there is no guarantee that all children in a family will be accepted.

Donate now

If you would like to designate your gift for CICS ChicagoQuest please make that designation by clicking on the “Add special instructions to the seller” option.

May 3
We examined one-celled
organisms under a microscope today. We also looked at plant cells. Then we made sketches of the cells.

We learned about DNA, which is short for Deoxyribonucleic acid.

James D. Watson and Francis Crick with Maclyn McCarty*

Watson and Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA. I googled them after school and learned that they were building on the work that other scientists had done before them. It changed the way I think about how scientists work.

*(Photo: Marjorie McCarty) Lederberg J, Gotschlich EC, 2005 A Path to Discovery: The Career of Maclyn McCarty. PLoS Biol 3(10): e341. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030341

May 5
Today we put together models of DNA. Working with the models helped me to better understand the structure of DNA.

May 6
We've been asked by a team of game designers to provide information for a game that they are making about genetics! We learned how to use Punnett squares to understand the probability that offspring will have certain traits. I plugged in my parents' eye color and discovered that there was only a 25% chance that I would have green eyes - and I do! The odds were against me!

May 10
We have to write an introduction to the genetics game so that players have some background information before they start. I wrote about how the discovery of DNA has allowed today's scientists to be able to work on cures for specific diseases. This has been my favorite mission so far. I think I might be one of those scientists one day.

ChicagoQuest Schools - Minds on a Mission

Application Information

Donate now

APPLY ONLINE

Or, DOWNLOAD APPLICATIONS