Randolph Magnet School
School/Community Profile
Randolph Magnet School is located on the southwest side of Chicago (7300 South and 2100 West). The neighborhood is predominately African-American with low to middle income families residing in single family homes. Located in the West Englewood area of Chicago, Randolph Magnet School opened in the fall of 1980, and was built to accommodate 900 students. The current enrollment of Randolph is 993, Pre-K through 6th grade students. Our poverty level is 91.2 % as evidenced by the State School Report Card.
The faculty is a stable, racially balanced, extremely talented mixture of young and tenured teachers bringing a wealth of expertise to the students. 47% of the professional staff have masters degrees and above. There are 3 administrators, 56 teachers and 24 educational support staff and 6 school support staff members.
Over the past three years there has been a tremendous increase in parental involvement. The service that is provided to our school by parent volunteers in various capacities far exceeds our expectations. A uniform dress code was implemented in the 1992-93 school year and continues to promote pride, unity, dignity and helps to develop character and self-esteem. Our 1997-1998 goal to create two prototype classrooms paves the way for our school to get on board the Information Superhighway!
Currently Randolph has been a participant in the GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) program. GLOBE is one of the nation’s outstanding environmental education programs, Randolph students started sending data on the Internet in the fall of 1995. Our students, together with 6000 schools in 74 nations, (Cyprus became the 74th GLOBE country on November 24, 1998) share scientific data about our planet via the Internet. We have an automated roof top weather station. (Thanks to a partnership with Best Buy and WBBM-TV) Scientists use GLOBE data in their research and provide feedback to the students to enrich their science education. Images created from the student sets are posted on the World Wide Web, allowing students and visitors at the GLOBE web site to visualize the student environmental observations. . Randolph students have sent over 2 thousand measurements to the GLOBE data base since joining the program.
Colaborative learning
Eclipse at Randolph
Goals 2000 Power Point Presentation
Randolph's New CPS Page
Randolph's NASA Grant
(Left) Students observe and record cloud cover and cloud type, while the automated roof top weather station, records atmosphere and precipitation data.
(Above) Randolph Students use a GPS receiver to record the Latitude and Longitude of the school.
Get State Goals and resources for lesson plans at the new CPS instructional intranet at: http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/start.html
800 Atmosphere temperature readings
500 Cloud observations and classifications
800 rain and snow measurements
19 surface water tests at Marquette Park
5 Land Cover classifications from satellite images
Chicago Public Schools Directory
Chicago Teachers Union
Lopatka's Favorite Things
1999 Randolph Science fair
Trip to the University of Chicago
CPS City Science Fair
Region 5 Science Fair 2000
These pages are devoted to activities at Randolph School in Chicago, Illinois. Asa Philip Randolph is located at 7316 S. Hoyne Ave. Chicago, IL 60636
Spring Break
Go to GLOBE Soil
Alderman Murphy Visits 202
Heritage Bowl
GLOBE Phenology Web Chat
Lopatka's Astro Links
GLOBE Randolph Fun Page
GLOBE Hydrology Studies
GLOBE New Mexico Workshop
Randolph Rockets
Teacher Workshop
Basketball Stats
Hub Instructors Home Page
Students Meet Astronaut
Kenwood Academy
Mr. Lopatka's Vacation
Lopatka's Garden
Summer 99 Web Page Class
Internet Vocabulary
Sun Spots
Space Camp 1999
Atmosphere Web Chat
Web Page Construction
GLOBE South Carolina Workshop
Shadow Prject
December 8, 1999 Scince Fair
Spelling Bee February 2000
CPS City Science Fair 2000
These pages are maintained by Mr. Greg Lopatka, the Technology teacher, who has been at Randolph since it opened in 1980.
Students (Above) check the GLOBE cloud charts. The Automated Weather Station (Right) sends weather data to the Randolph Science Lab. A Channel 2 News computer downloads weather data for the TV news casts.
(Above) Randolph's Basketball coach, Anthony Smith, runs an early morning practice. Anthony graduated from Randolph in the 80s.
(Above)These are the Randolph GLOBE and Aerospace students that gather environmental data after school for GLOBE scientists. (Right) The Second graders of 305 take a hike on the Randolph nature trail on a warm February day.
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