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Neuqua Valley, Naperville Central and North Make Best Illinois High Schools List
U.S. News & World Report released its annual list of top high schools in the nation this week.
Written by Emily Stone and Jennifer Fisher.
All three high schools serving Naperville ranked among the top 50 in the state on a U.S. News & World Report list released this week.
Neuqua Valley High School came in 30th, followed by Naperville Central High School at 38th and Naperville North High School at 44th.
All three high schools serving Naperville ranked among the top 50 in the state on a U.S. News & World Report list released this week.
Neuqua Valley High School came in 30th, followed by Naperville Central High School at 38th and Naperville North High School at 44th.
The methodology, which was unchanged since last year, looks at three main factors to decide a school’s ranking: whether students are performing better than statistically expected for the average student in the state; whether disadvantaged students are performing better in math and reading than the state average for their peers; and the school’s “college-readiness” performance, based on AP or International Baccalaureate test data.
In Illinois, the Prairie State Achievement Examination is used to gauge student performance to determine the ranking.
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The top four schools are all Chicago selective enrollment high schools. The highest-ranked suburban school was Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire at No. 5, followed by Deerfield High School and Hinsdale Central High School. You can view the full list here.
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