Alexander Graham Bell School (Chicago)
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Alexander Graham Bell School, also known as Bell School[1] is a public school located in the North Center neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States; it is a part of the Chicago Public Schools. It offers grades kindergarten through grade eight. It also has a deaf department for students in preschool through grade eight and additionally a Regional Gifted Center (Options) for students in grades kindergarten through eight.
The elementary school was founded in 1917 with 24 classrooms for hearing students and 15 classrooms for deaf students, after the Chicago School Board allocated US$285,000 for it in 1915 (approximately $Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". in current dollars).Template:Inflation-fn[2][3]
The school, one of the largest built in the Chicago Public School system at the time, was dedicated on April 1, 1918, by its name source Alexander Graham Bell, advocate of education for deaf students.[4]
Sports
Bell School offers a variety of sports, including basketball, cross country, flag football, soccer, softball, track and field and volleyball.
Special events
Since 2003, Martyrs', a music venue on Lincoln Avenue, has hosted "Bands for Bell" where Bell parent bands play as a fundraiser for Bell.
See also
References
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- ↑ Chicago Tribune. School Board Decides To Hold All Vacant Land, Chicago Tribune, October 1, 1915, pg.11 (subscription).
- ↑ Bell, Alexander G., Elementary School, retrieved from CPSAlumni.org website May 11, 2011.
- ↑ Electrical Review. Electrical Review -Volume 72, International Trade Press, 1918, pg.704.
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External links
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