Newsweek's 2015 Top IL High Schools... (Chicago, Aurora: universities, suburban, estates)

[GoCUBS1]

FWIW...

Newsweek just released its 2015 Top High Schools list and 30 Illinois schools were included among its top 500 schools in the U.S.

Top 30 Illinois schools on Newsweek’s 2015 list:

1. Payton College Preparatory High School, Chicago: No. 10 in the nation
2. Northside College Preparatory High School, Chicago: No. 12 in the nation
3. New Trier Township High School, Winnetka: No. 14 in the nation
4. Lake Forest High School: No. 34 in the nation
5. Jones College Prep High School, Chicago: No. 46 in the nation
6. Naperville North High School, Naperville: No. 58 in the nation (Read more on Naperville Patch)
7. Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire: No. 82
8. Glenbrook High School, Glenview: No. 90 (Read more on Glenview Patch)
9. Naperville Central High School, Naperville: No. 95 (Read more on Naperville Patch)
10. William Fremd High School, Palatine: No. 104 in the nation (Read more on Palatine Patch)
11. Barrington High School, Barrington: No. 161
12. Lake Zurich High School, Lake Zurich: No. 175
13. John Hersey High School, Arlington Heights: No. 250 in the nation (Read more on Arlington Heights Patch)
14. Prairie Ridge High School, Crystal Lake: No. 251 (Read more on Crystal Lake-Cary Patch)
15. Grayslake Central High School, Grayslake: No. 262 (Read more on Grayslake Patch)
16. Highland Park High School, Highland Park: No. 263
17. Cary-Grove Community High School, Cary: No. 323 (Read more on Crystal Lake-Cary Patch)
18. Prospect High School, Mount Prospect: No. 346
19. Minooka Community High School, Minooka: No. 349
20. Morton High School, Morton: No. 364
21. Maine South High School, Park Ridge: No. 380
22. J B Conant High School, Hoffman Estates: No. 382 in the nation
23. St. Charles North High School, St. Charles: No. 387 (Read more on St. Charles Patch)
24. Wheaton North High School, Wheaton: No. 388 (Read more on Wheaton Patch)
25. Waubonsie Valley High School, Aurora: No. 393 (Read more on Naperville Patch)
26. Hinsdale South High School, Darien: No. 415 (Read more on Hinsdale Patch)
27. Buffalo Grove High School, Buffalo Grove: No. 442 (Read more on Naperville Patch)
28. Dunlap High School, Dunlap: No. 467
29. Monticello High School, Monticello: No. 470
30. Metea Valley High School, Aurora: No. 497 (Read more on Naperville Patch)

These Suburban High Schools Ranked Among the Best in Nation: Newsweek | Algonquin-Lake In The Hills, IL Patch

[GoCUBS1]

A couple surprises for me - like Lake Zurich (#12) being higher than I thought, and Buffalo Grove ranked lower at #27..
Also, Deerfield, Libertyville, Vernon Hills not being on the list. Not sure about the methodology used.

[chet everett]

I do not agree with either the focus on "pure" ordinal ranking nor their methodology, but they do spell it out -- http://www.newsweek.com/methodology-...gs-2015-363698

College Enrollment Rate—25 percent
Graduation Rate—20 percent
Weighted AP/IB/Dual Enrollment composite—17.5 percent
Weighted SAT/ACT composite—17.5 percent
Student Retention (change in student enrollment between 9th and 12th grades; this measure is intended to control for dropout rates)—10 percent
Counselor-to-Student Ratio—10 percent

I have no idea why they give 10% weight to Counselor to Student ration, not even sure if that has ever been studied...

There is some controversy over how Newsweek uses just AP/IB "enrollment" and not success, as the more valid US New & World Report uses, but at least there is some correlation with that data and it has been studied as an indicator of kids at least being exposed to college level rigor...

[agallan]

Morton?

[4122]

Originally Posted by agallan

Morton?

Not Morton West or Morton East, otherwise these rankings would be completley useless. It's in Morton Il wherever that is.

[4122]

Is their a link to the Newsweek rankings for all Illinois schools? If so, can you post it?

[Paige65]

Here is a another useful tool in determining which high schools are preparing their students for college in IL.

Of particular interest is the high school specific freshman year of college GPA's at University of IL Champaign, and then generally, the GPA's of a high school's college freshman at all of the public universities in IL.

The first table starts on page 13.

http://www.ibhe.org/HSCSR/PDF/2013/U..._CHAMPAIGN.pdf

[Northwest Indiana]

Hinsdale Central not on there

[Paige65]

Originally Posted by Northwest Indiana

Hinsdale Central not on there

Any IL HS ranking that doesn't include Hinsdale Central doesn't seem worth much to me.

[damba]

True. The Newsweek rankings really don't amount to a hill of beans anyway.

cheers

Originally Posted by Paige65

Any IL HS ranking that doesn't include Hinsdale Central doesn't seem worth much to me.