A change in the IHSA mutiplier would affect many CPS schools like Northside Prep.
A proposal is being made to change the multiplier the IHSA has on non-boundaried schools.
Under the current system, adapted in 2005, a 1.65 multiplier is enacted to the enrollment of all non- boundaried schools (i.g. Private and selective enrollment schools). The thinking was that since a Mt. Carmel could take kids without regards to boundaries, like most public schools did, it would have an athletic advantage over non-boudaried schools. Thus, evening the field a bit more.
However, now that that the multiplier has been in affect for a few years, one athletic director feels it has not had the desired affect and is looking to change it. That person is David Ribbens of the University of Chicago High School.
"The multiplier affects too many schools unjustly because the IHSA makes
the assumption that because a school is unboundaried, it is more
successful in athletics," Ribbens said. "That isn't the case. Remember,
some schools (in the Chicago Public League) are unboundaried, too.
Using the new proposal to the IHSA by Ribbens, non-boundaried enrollment schools would be moved up a class if they finish in the top 8 in the state- and move up 2 classes if they finish in the top 4. This would only apply to non-football schools.
This would greatly affect the CPS, as the CPS has many non-boundary schools. The big schools like Curie, Whitney Young, and Lane would stay in the same upper classes no matter situation. But schools like Brooks, King, Northside, Payton, etc - who are smaller could be lowered down a class.
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