Curie Metropolitan High School is a public 4-year magnet

Magnet school

In education in the United States, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools.There are magnet schools at the...

 high school

High school

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 located in the Archer Heights

Archer Heights, Chicago

Archer Heights is a primarily middle class neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. One of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, it is located on the city's southwest side. The neighborhood is a center of Polish culture, and home of the Polish Highlanders Alliance of North America as well as Curie...

 neighborhood of Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

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. The school has a Technical, Performing Arts, and International Baccalaureate Programme. Curie Metropolitan High School was named after Nobel Prize laureate Maria Sklodowska–Curie

Marie Curie

Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry...

 in recognition of the area's historically heavy Polish-American populace

Poles in Chicago

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Curie Metro High School is accessible via the Chicago L's

Chicago 'L'

The L is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs. It is operated by the Chicago Transit Authority...

 nearby Pulaski

Pulaski (CTA Orange Line)

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 Orange Line

Orange Line (Chicago Transit Authority)

The Orange Line, is a rapid transit line in Chicago, Illinois run by the Chicago Transit Authority as part of the 'L' system. It is approximately long, and runs below grade and elevated on existing railroad embankments and new concrete and steel structures from Chicago Midway International...

 station.

Academics

Curie Metropolitan High School has been an International Baccalaureate Organization

International Baccalaureate Organization

The International Baccalaureate , formerly the International Baccalaureate Organization , is an international educational foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and founded in 1968. IB offers three educational programmes for children ages 3–19.The organization's name and logo were changed...

 World School since January 1999, and offers both the IB Middle Years Programme

IB Middle Years Programme

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 and the IB Diploma Programme

IB Diploma Programme

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Curie Metro was one of sixteen schools nationwide selected by the College Board

College Board

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 for inclusion in the EXCELerator

EXCELerator

' is a school improvement model developed with the College Board. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation agreed to fund a five-year pilot project with a $16 million grant...

 School Improvement Model program beginning the 2007-2008 school year. The project was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Athletics

Curie High School is a school with a wide variety of sports. With twelve varsity sports, Curie students have a wide selection to choose from. Most notable sport recently is the varsity water polo

Water polo

Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...

 team, which has won four consecutive Chicago Public League titles in recent years.

Notable alumni

• Victor Adeyanju
  Victor Adeyanju
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   has played in the NFL
  National Football League
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   as a defensive end
  Defensive end
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   for the St. Louis Rams
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• Yung Berg
  Yung Berg
  Christian Ward , better known by his stage name Yung Berg, is an American rapper from Chicago. He is of African American and Puerto Rican descent. His first single was "Sexy Lady" which features R&B singer Junior. Yung Berg had been previously signed to DMX's Bloodline Records as Ice Berg. He is...
  
   is a rap artist (Sexy Lady
  Sexy Lady
  "Sexy Lady" is the debut single by rapper Yung Berg and appears on his Almost Famous EP and the full-length Look What You Made Me. It features Junior. It samples The Musical Stage Company's version of Diamonds Are Forever, and the chorus is an interpolation of Millie Jackson's "Slow Tongue". The...
  
  ).