minimum cutoff score of 898 out of 900 points to make the first cut for the 2020-21 school year. In 2010, the school won the Intel School of Distinction awards in the categories of Excellence in Mathematics and Star Innovator for incorporating technology into classes, collaborative lesson and course planning, and use of Japanese Lesson Study. Demographics Walter Payton College Prep is 44.1% White, 21.5% Hispanic, 19.1% Asian, 10.1% Black, and 5.2% other. 27.7% of students are from low-income households. Athletics Payton competes in the Chicago Public League (CPL) and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). Its girls volleyball team has made three appearances in the IHSA Class 3A state finals, finishing fourth in 2009, 2011 and 2014. The Girls Varsity tennis team won State Championships in 2018 and has placed in Cities multiple times. The Boys Cross Country team has been in the state meet 2021(7th place), and 2022(6th place). Controversies In 2014, former Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, then a first-time candidate for governor and resident of suburban Winnetka, Illinois, was forced to respond to reports on the campaign trail that he had used political clout to get one of his daughters admitted to Payton six years earlier. Rauner, a venture capitalist who had a second residence in Chicago, initially denied the reports. However, it was later revealed that Rauner had called then-Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan to overturn his daughter's initial rejection for admission. In 2009, the Rauner Family Foundation donated $250,000 to the Payton Prep Initiative for Education, the largest donation the not-for-profit had received up to that point. In May 2019, principal Timothy Devine ordered all of the yearbooks for the 2018-2019 school year reprinted due to contents showing students displaying the "ok" sign with their fingers below the waist, with the intention of getting others to look. The website 4chan associated the "ok" hand gesture as being a symbol of white supremacy, although this thought has since died out and there is no evidence that the kids had any racist intentions. Reprinting of all of the yearbooks cost the administration $22,485. According to an October 2019 news article published by WBEZ, the school has dealt with a number of racist incidents, including Black students being called the N-word and bananas being thrown at them. In the same article, principal Timothy Devine claimed that the incidents were a natural product of