Evanston vs. New Trier (Chicago, Naperville: real estate market, rent, credit)

[Anthera]

I've never heard of this school. Where is it?

[Anthera]

I think you may have been talking about NSCD. If so, your analysis is a bit off. It is a fairly diverse school geographically (lots of city kids who didn't get into Latin or Parker or a magnet HS), but it is not superior to NT test wise.

To blatently steal Chets brilliant ice cream analogy, NSCD is frozen yogurt. Parents send their kids there so they can go to a very small school. The kids there play two or three varsity sports a year, they have a good shot of being the editor of the school paper, or class president. The kids all know each other(especially the ones who started in JK), and its a completely different atmosphere than NT.

Other flavors of frozen yogurt are Lake Forest Academy, Roycemore, Woodlands Academy, The Willows and Northridge Prep.

[Calidreemer]

Call me niave but I thought "family friendly" meant there were many things, services, events, that were geared toward families with children.

[Calidreemer]

I thought that poster was talking about North Shore Country Day school - I haven't heard of North Shore Community.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by cohdane

As for "family friendly" being a racist code-word-- come on.

It's only a racist code word when it comes from "Brenty".

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by cohdane

FYI, these are the 2006 Evanston/Wilmette crime stats per 100,000 off City Data. Knowing nothing about race, where would you want to raise a kid?

Robberies 179/7
Assaults 130/7
Burglaries 1133/130
Thefts 2595/1207
Overall Crime Index 289/69

"Family friendly" Schaumburg has had crime indices in the 240-290 range in the last five years, but no one calls that place a crime pit. Wilmette's is low because there is no University, nightlife, or large shopping district there.

I know that a kid was shot in the neck near ETHS, but this is not a common occurence.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

"Family friendly" Schaumburg has had crime indices in the 240-290 range in the last five years, but no one calls that place a crime pit. Wilmette's is low because there is no University, nightlife, or large shopping district there.

I know that a kid was shot in the neck near ETHS, but this is not a common occurence.

Wilmette is low because one that does not make "good" money can not afford to live there-just like Northbrook,Winnetka,etc...

Schaumburg has some quite affordable areas and is right by 90. People can come off 90, commit a crime,and jump right back on. Also there are many areas around Schaumburg that have Section 8 and "affordable" apartments as well as very impoverished sections. This is not really the case with Wilmette.

[Humboldt1]

I agree that Evanston is getting more affluent and soon expect it 10-15 years to see the area around the school transformed except for the enivitable mixed income developments developers will be forced to put in. Evanston is as a whole a great community. I just prefer wilmette and new trier though certainly evanston is better for people under 40.

And I did mean north shore country day school. I would be interested to see test scores vs new trier if anyone has them.

There are some quotas for low income kids in place but I don't believe those who didn't get into magnet schools go there. It is certainly a much better school than lane tech, which is pretty good by CPS standards.

I have met several times with their budget director so I know a fair amount about the school, even though I messed up the name, which is clearly printed on the file I keep on them for the bank. I don't really care so much about their scores so long as they park some of their endowment money with my bank.

They are a decent prep school, certainly no culver or exeter but then again few are.

And yes Schaumburg sucks. It gets worse everyday with more and more sec8 moving in, especially near streamwood and hanover park. That town maxed out around 1995 and has made little progress since then other than the nice ballfield they built for the schaumburg fliers. Also, wtf is olde schaumburg at roselle and schaumburg roads? It is one of the ugliest developments I have ever seen in my life, looking like the lot for some cheesy western movie.

[edsg25]

Could one make a very, very strong argument that Wilmette's very health and safety depends in part on the health and safety of the city it shares what is by far its longest border. And no, I'm not referring to Kenilworth, Glenview, or Skokie.

Does anyone seriously believe that a lot of what Wilmette is has to do with having Evanston next door? And I'm talking about a lot more than home owners north of Ryan Field selling their driveways as parking spaces for Wildcat football games.

It's kind of hard to argue how Evanston's own proximity (and far greater influence) of that city to the south of it influences its own growing stature without realizing that having Evanston as the mini-city next door is as much a part of the Wilmette mix as shopping at Old Orchard or Northbrook Court, walking the Botanical Gardens, or spending an evening at Ravinia. Even for the family friendliest amongst us, municipal borders don't mean all that much.

[LakeShoreSoxGo]

Evanston is a bit more diverse, which has a direct correlation on test scores. New Trier is the best public HS in cook county, or at least was when I was in hs.