Downers Grove D99 High Schools Ranked Among Best in Illinois

Community High School District 99 high schools are among the best in the state, according to annual rankings by U.S. News and World Report.

North High School was ranked No. 40 in Illinois, and South High School earned the No. 79 spot. Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago was named the No. 1 best high school in the state.

Below is the U.S. News rank breakdown for the D99 schools.

North High School:

Medal Awarded: Silver
National Rank: #905
State Rank: #40

Proficient in Reading: 74 percent
Proficient in Mathematics: 75 percent
College Readiness Index: 41.6 (out of 100)
Student/Teacher Ratio: 14:1

South High School:

Medal Awarded: Silver
National Rank: #2031
State Rank: #79

Proficient in Reading: 68 percent
Proficient in Mathematics 67 percent
College Readiness Index: 24.7 (out of 100)
Student/Teacher Ratio: 14:1

Illinois had 17 gold medal schools, 69 silver medal schools and 91 bronze medal schools in this year’s list of Best High Schools. See the full U.S. News report here.

Methodology:

U.S. News worked with RTI International, a North Carolina-based research firm, to create this year’s rankings.

The comprehensive rankings methodology is based on these key principles: that a great high school must serve all of its students well, not just those who are college bound, and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show it is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators, according to U.S. News.

High schools across the country were awarded gold, silver and bronze medals. To create the state rankings, the gold and silver medal schools within each state were ranked based on their positions within the national list, according to U.S. News.

Gold medals: Schools with the highest unrounded College Readiness Index values were numerically ranked from No. 1 to No. 500 and were the gold medal winners.

Silver medals: The high schools ranked from No. 501 to No. 2,527 were the 2,027 silver medal winners. Only schools with CRI values at or above 19.42 received this medal because that was the median – the statistical midpoint – of all the College Readiness Index values among high schools with AP or IB test-takers.

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