Chicagoland high schools are highly represented in Newsweek‘s “America’s Top Schools 2015,” with three schools ranking in the top 20, five within the top 50 and 27 total amongst the top 500.
Here are the schools, along with their ranking:
- Payton College Preparatory High School (Chicago) – 10
- Northside College Preparatory High School (Chicago) – 12
- New Trier Township High School (Winnetka) – 14
- Lake Forest High School – 34
- Jones College Prep High School (Chicago) – 46
- Naperville North High School – 58
- Adlai E. Stevenson High School (Lincolnshire) – 82
- Glenbrook South High School (Glenview) – 90
- Naperville Central High School – 95
- William Fremd High School (Palatine) – 104
- Barrington High School – 161
- Lake Zurich High School – 175
- John Hersey High School (Arlington Heights) – 250
- Prairie Ridge High School (Crystal Lake) – 251
- Grayslake Central High School – 262
- Highland Park High School – 263
- Cary-Grove Community High School – 323
- Prospect High School (Mount Prospect) – 346
- Minooka Community High School – 349
- Main South High School (Park Ridge) – 380
- JB Conant High School (Hoffman Estates) – 382
- St. Charles North High School – 387
- Wheaton North High School – 388
- Waubonsie Valley High School (Aurora) – 393
- Hinsdale South High School – 415
- Buffalo Grove High School – 442
- Metea Valley High School (Aurora) – 497
Newsweek‘s rankings utilized a metric that included the college readiness of students, the school’s graduation rate, the percent of students who were college bound and, most interestingly, the share of students who live in poverty. That final metric differed substantially across Chicagoland’s schools. At Walter Payton Prep and Northside Prep, for instance, 32.1 and 36.2 percent of students live in poverty, whereas at New Trier and Lake Forest, only 3.8 percent of students live in poverty.
(Source: Chicago Agent Magazine)
