Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences

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The Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, created in 1985 by the Chicago Public Schools, is an unusual experimental high school devoted to teaching agricultural science to urban students. The school features a working farm (it was built on the site of one of the last farms to survive within the city limits), and the students commute from all across the city to attend classes. The students benefit from hands-on experience and summer interships, and typically go on to attend "Aggie" universities. The school was founded in part to increase the number of minorities in agricultural careers, since most of the African-American farmers in the US have been forced out of business by the racist policies of the US Department of Agriculture. It is located in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood at 3857 West 111th Street.