Winnetka, Northfield Schools Rank Top in State
New Trier High School ranked among top 10 high schools in the state. Five Winnetka schools and two Northfield schools were ranked among top 50 in the State.
Winnetka and Northfield schools are some of the best in Illinois and Chicagoland, according to a pair of recent Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times rankings.
Local schools that made the "top 50" lists include New Trier High School, Greeley Elementary School, Middlefork Primary School, Crow Island Elementary School, The Skokie School, Carleton Washburne School, and Sunset Ridge School.
The two publications used different methods to determine school rankings.
The Tribune chose the top 50 high schools and grade schools in Chicagoland based on the percentage of students that met or exceeded state standards on the 2012 Illinois State Achievement Test (for third through eight grade students) and the Prairie State Achievement Examination (for high school students).
The Sun-Times rankings, on the other hand, used these same tests results but based their rankings on standardized average school test scores.
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Sun-Times Illinois rankings (standardized average percentile) |
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6th (89.5 percent) |
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14th (99.4 percent) |
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Middlefork Primary School |
17th (99 percent) |
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18th (99 percent) |
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35th (98 percent) |
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New Trier Township High School - Winnetka Campus
385 Winnetka Ave, Winnetka, IL -
Greeley School
275 Fairview Ave, Winnetka, IL -
Crow Island School
1112 Willow Rd, Winnetka, IL -
The Skokie School
520 Glendale Ave, Winnetka, IL -
Carleton Washburne School
515 Hibbard Rd, Winnetka, IL -
Sunset Ridge School
525 Sunset Ridge Rd, Northfield, IL
Winnetka
8:38 am on Monday, November 5, 2012
Isn't anyone interested in the schools that "beat" or ranked ahead of the district 36 schools? Based on the very high salaries paid to teachers, staff, admins and superintendents, shouldn't D36 schools rank w/in the top 5-10? What happened to "Sustaining Excellence"...that get out the vote campaign so that a $74 million dollar school funding referendum would be enacted and was. The rankings for D36 schools are far from what many w/in the community would deem excellent...more like mediocre. Consider the better deal you might get in terms of tax dollar value to school rank ratio w/ some of the other districts' schools: Avoca, Sears, Middlefork, Greenbrier... What's going on in D36 still doesn't add up. Salaries are up, test scores are not.