A new list ranking the nation’s top 50 public high schools featured the Prairie State prominently, with 10 Illinois high schools making the cut.
The list, published by 247wallst.com, used data from Niche, an education ranking and review website, to rate public high schools on a variety of factors.
While academics were the most important factor in a school’s ranking, culture and diversity, extracurricular activities and several other factors played an important role in the evaluation of schools.
Here are the Illinois public high schools that made the list and where they ranked:
45. Lake Forest High School, Lake Forest 43. New Trier Township High School, Winnetka and Northfield 42. Vernon Hills High School, Vernon Hills 34. William Fremd High School, Palatine 31. Glenbrook North High School, Northbrook 30. Neuqua Valley High School, Naperville 29. Glenbrook South High School, Glenview 25. Hinsdale Central High School, Hinsdale 9. Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire 3. University of Illinois High School, Urbana
Rounding out the top three after the inclusion of the University of Illinois High School were High Technology High School in Middletown Township, NJ and North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham.
The full list can be found at 247wallst.com here.
