Cooley Vocational High School | |
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Address | |
1225 N. Sedgwick Street , 60610 | |
Coordinates | 41°54′19″N 87°38′17″W / 41.9053°N 87.6381°W |
Information | |
School type | |
Opened | September 1958 |
Status | Demolished |
Closed | June 1979[2] |
School district | Chicago Public Schools |
Grades | 7–12 |
Gender | Coed |
Enrollment | 536 (1978–1979)[2] |
Campus type | Urban |
Color(s) | Orange Black |
Athletics conference | Chicago Public League |
Team name | Comets |
Accreditation | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools |
Newspaper | Cooley Times |
Yearbook | Comets' Trails[1] |
Edwin Gilbert Cooley Vocational High School (also known as Cooley Vocational High School and Upper Grade Center, commonly known as Cooley High) was a public 4–year vocational high school and middle school located in the Old Town neighborhood on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Opened primarily to serve Cabrini-Green in 1958, Cooley was housed in a high school building constructed in 1907, which had housed trade schools. It was a part of the Chicago Public Schools district and served grades 7 through 12. Cooley was named in honor of Edwin Gilbert Cooley (1857–1923), who served as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools from 1900 until 1909.[3][4][5] Cooley closed in June 1979.[citation needed]