"Hundreds" of Students Opt Out of PARCC Test

Nine High Schools make up High School District 214, including Arlington Heights’ John Hersey High School. And a great deal of students in the district have opted out of taking the PARCC test.

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that “hundreds of students have declined to take the controversial PARCC exam at two northwest suburban high schools.”

“District spokeswoman Jennifer Delgado could not say how many students opted out of the test,” the Chicago Tribune is reporting. “But she said a “large amount” of students at Rolling Meadows High did not take the exam, the most within the district’s six high schools.”

High School District 214 includes the following high schools:

• Buffalo Grove High School
• Elk Grove High School
• The Academy at Forest View
• John Hersey High School
• Newcomer School
• Prospect High School
• Rolling Meadows High School
• Vanguard School
• Wheeling High School