 Its athletics include baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, soccer, softball, tennis, track sports, and volleyball.It has a variety of other extra-curricular activities including a student council, a National Honors Society, an Asian Student Alliance club, a sound club, and a Latin Dance club.On April 3, 2009, teachers at Northtown, in conjunction with their colleagues at the two other Civitas Schools campuses, filed Authorization for Representation cards with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board to be the first charter teachers in Chicago to be represented by a union, the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers & Staff.