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U.S. News Releases Illinois Best Public High Schools List

The public high school rankings are based on how well the schools serve students going on to college, in addition to those who are not. Eight high schools within Districts 211 and 214 are in the top 50.

 

U.S. News today released the rankings for Best Public High Schools by analyzing data from the 2010-2011 school year from more than 21,000 schools located in 49 states and the District of Columbia.

Locally, a total of eight high schools in District 211 and 214 township high school districts serving Palatine and Arlington Heights students were ranked within the top 45 out of 138 ranked high schools in Illinois. National rankings are also included in the table below. 

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High School/Town Ranking Statewide/National Township High School District Prospect High School, Mt. Prospect 9/295 214 John Hersey High School, Arlington Heights 10/298 214 William H. Fremd High School, Palatine 22/540 211 J.B. Conant High School, Hoffman Estates 26/615 211 Hoffman Estates High School, Hoffman Estates 28/640 211 Wheeling High School, Wheeling 30/817 214 Elk Grove High School, Elk Grove Village 43/1026 214 Schaumburg High School, Schaumburg 45/1101 211

Out of the 138 schools that received rankings in the state, Palatine High School was the only high school in District 211 that was not among them, in addition to Buffalo Grove and Rolling Meadows high schools which are both in District 214.

According to U.S. News, a three-step process was utilized to determine the Best High Schools. Parameters included each state’s use of proficiency test standards as benchmarks.

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College readiness of students also was ranked. The steps that schools took to prepare students through participation in, and ability to pass Advanced Placement of International Baccalaureate college-level work, were used as indicators.

The top eight Best High Schools in Illinois, in addition to their national rankings are below:

High School/Town Rankings Statewide/National Northside College Preparatory High School, Chicago 1/33 Walter Payton College Preparatory High School, Chicago 2/45 Jones College Prep, Chicago 3/85 Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, Chicago 4/126 Deerfield High School, Deerfield 5/181 Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire 6/185 Highland Park High School, Highland Park 7/234 Hindsdale Central High School, Hindsdale 8/289

The rankings were achieved in conjunction with the American Institutes for Research (AIR), which according to the U.S. News website, is one of the largest behavioral and social science research organizations in the world.

Learn more about how U.S. News calculated the Best High Schools rankings at http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/high-schools/2013/04/22/how-us-news-calculated-the-2013-best-high-schools-rankings.html

You can also see the full 2013 U.S. News Best High Schools rankings at http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools


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