Ranking Chicago's North Shore Suburbs by Prominence/Name Recognition

[nana053]

Interesting that this year 2016, ETHS ranks higher than New Trier.

New Trier Township High School Winnetka in Winnetka, IL | US News Best High Schools

New Trier Township High School Winnetka is ranked 22nd within Illinois.

New Trier Township High School Winnetka is ranked #642 in the National Rankings and earned a silver medal.

Evanston Twp High School in Evanston, IL | US News Best High Schools

Evanston Twp High School is ranked 13th within Illinois.

Evanston Twp High School is ranked #452 in the National Rankings and earned a gold medal.

This is despite the high poverty rate at ETHS, so I think they must be doing something right.

Evanston's elementary schools all have 9s or 10s on great schools (not the best rating system, but still that is decent).

Seven Evanston schools make top 100 list | Evanston Now

Evanston Township High School and six District 65 schools scored in the top 100 statewide in a new newspaper ranking.

The analysis by the Chicago Sun-Times of state achievement test results showed four Evanston elementary schools in the top 100 -- Orrington at 22, Willard at 35, Rhodes at 79 and Dewey at 99 among 2,192 elementary schools ranked statewide.

The district's other elementary schools were ranked as follows: Lincolnwood at 173, Kingsley at 208, King Lab at 282, Lincoln at 317, Walker at 398, Washington at 414, Dawes at 627 and Oakton at 1,027.

Among middle schools, two in Evanston were among the top 100 -- Haven at 34 and Nichols at 93 among 1,395 middle schools ranked statewide.

The district's third middle school and the middle school grades at its two lab schools were ranked as follows: Rhodes Lab at 133, King Lab at 165 and Chute at 235.

[pvande55]

I think Evanston's biggest obstacle is it isn't convenient to anywhere but downtown Chicago and Skokie. Even Des Plaines, about 20 km away, is a rough ride. Schaumburg or Oak Brook? Forget it.

[Careless]

Originally Posted by nana053

Interesting that this year 2016, ETHS ranks higher than New Trier.


This is despite the high poverty rate at ETHS, so I think they must be doing something right.

Evanston's elementary schools all have 9s or 10s on great schools (not the best rating system, but still that is decent).

Seven Evanston schools make top 100 list | Evanston Now

ETHS has a worse graduation rate for white, Hispanic, and Asian students (black students being unlisted for NT on Greatschools). Their students are a standard deviation below New Trier's on the ACT, which is enormous, but I'm not confident about the relevance of, the ACT not being taken by students planning on going only East Coast. White students score slightly worse at ETHS than NT these days (it was reversed 8ish years ago, when I started looking at this). ETHS gets by on a high AP participation rate and unusually high test scores for black students



You're flat out wrong about what Greatschools says about Evanston's elementary schools. There are 3 10s, 4 9s, an 8, 2 7s, and a 6. [url]http://www.greatschools.org/illinois/evanston/schools/?gradeLevels%5B%5D=e[url]

All that said, we probably wouldn't have moved out of Evanston 5 years ago had the value on the low end of the market near the trains been so awful. We moved to Glencoe because it was cheaper. Possibly the first time anyone has ever written that. I don't actually believe there is a significant difference in instruction quality between the two schools, and certainly not one larger than the variance in teacher quality within the schools.

Originally Posted by pvande55

I think Evanston's biggest obstacle is it isn't convenient to anywhere but downtown Chicago and Skokie. Even Des Plaines, about 20 km away, is a rough ride. Schaumburg or Oak Brook? Forget it.

Yeah, aside from being convenient to the third largest city in the country, it's not near anything!