Recent Achievements

• The CPSA Mock Trial Team won the ISBA mock trial state tournament and represented Illinois with excellence at the National Mock Trial Tournament in Phoenix, Arizona. Illinois finished with an amazing 3-1 record with a majority novice team with 3 of them being in ninth grade.
  
  CPSA took a historic 13th place against all other states, territories and participating countries.
  
  Star witnesses included Sharmeen Sultana (twice), Zeshan Usmani, and Nabeeha Ahmed. Star Attorney (four time) was Samiha Amjad. Samiha was declared top outstanding attorney overall, which was one of the most difficult awards to achieve.
  

• CPSA won the ICTM State Championship for the third year in a row! The Freshman-Sophomore 2-person team, Junior-Senior 1-person team, and the Calculator team all won first place in the State! Additionally, in individual competitions, CPSA students won first place in Geometry.
  

• Four students from elementary, middle and high school grades placed in the top three for the annual MEC Qir’at Competition. 
  

• Ibrahim Elagha (‘24),Hamzah Shouman (‘25), and Zainab Nazeer (‘25) earned full scholarships for collegiate basketball.
  

• The CPSA Thunder Boys Varsity Basketball team won the Metro Prep Conference title in the ‘23-24 season.
  

• The CPSA Thunder Boys Varsity Basketball team won their first regional game in the ‘24-25 season.
  

• IJAS Science Fair team took 1st place in regionals at the high school and qualified the most number of students ever for state.. There they had 8 golds and 3 silvers in the paper session and 21 golds and 8 silvers in the poster session. Nuha Mohammed, gold award recipient was also awarded a $20,000 scholarship by Bradley University.
  

• 9th grade boys received 2nd place in State Finals for personal finance in the Illinois State Economic Challenge 2025 Illinois Treasurer Michael W. Frerichs sent his congratulations to the school. 
  

• Two CPSA teams made the finals and took 5th place overall for the Illinois Economic Challenge State finals held at North Central College in collaboration with UIC’s Center for Economic Education. 
  

• CPSA’s high school team was declared the 2025 State Champions in the Intuit Hour of Finance Challenge.
  

• Samiha Amjad was a finalist for the NHS Scholarship and Mustafa Tajammul has received the NMSQT scholarship. Six juniors will receive recognition by NMSQT. 
  

• Our Robotics Team has placed Seventh at the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science.