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Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is committed to ensuring all students have the opportunity to participate in school sports. Not only does participation in school sports maintain mental and physical health, but it also develops qualities such as good sportsmanship, integrity, respect, and teamwork. To ensure all elementary school students who wish to participate in a sports program have the opportunity to do so, CPS has made some changes to our elementary sports offerings to ensure we can continue to maintain our no-cut policy.  Elementary sports (CPS Score!) will now be broken up into two programs, CPS Score! and CPS Score!+. The focus of CPS Score! has changed to be a skill development league that will allow students to compete within their own school. CPS Score!+ is the new competition-focused interscholastic league for all elementary sports.

Schools participating in our elementary sports program will have their teams automatically enrolled in CPS Score!+. If a school reaches the maximum number of participants for each team per sport, the school will add a CPS Score! team(s), and students will be placed in one of the two programs based on their age and skill level. CPS Score!+ teams will compete on Saturdays, and CPS Score! teams will compete on Wednesdays. Only one team, per grade level, per gender is allowed to compete on CPS SCORE!+ Saturdays.