Schools

Wrong Data Used In New Trier's Newsweek Ranking

The school's SAT average score and percentage of college-bound graduates were incorrect.

New Trier High School's rank in Newsweek's list of the 500 best high schools in the country was based on incorrect data, the school says.

This year, , its highest ranking in the last five years. But one number used to calculate the ranking, the school's average SAT score, was incorrect.

New Trier's average SAT score, as originally reported to Newsweek, was 1293. That is the average composite score of the test's reading and math scores, and it does not include the school's average writing score. If the writing score had been included, the average score would have been 1910 out of 2400, said Niki Dizon, New Trier's director of communications.

Find out what's happening in Winnetka-Glencoewith free, real-time updates from Patch.

Newsweek would not recalibrate the school's score because the rankings were published, Dizon said. A correction was published to indicate the incorrect data on the Newsweek website.

"That would have improved our ranking significantly as well, but because the calibration already had been done, Newsweek was not willing to re-rank us," Dizon wrote in an email to Patch.

Find out what's happening in Winnetka-Glencoewith free, real-time updates from Patch.

An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that New Trier's percentage of college-bound seniors was also wrong. The data as reported to Newsweek is correct, and the article has been updated to reflect this change.


Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.

We’ve removed the ability to reply as we work to make improvements. Learn more here