Evergreen Park Community High School Ranked Among Illinois's Top 100 Schools

EVERGREEN PARK, IL -- The annual U.S. News & World Report list of best high schools in the country was released this week. Evergreen Park Community High School landed in the top 100 of Illinois rankings.

Illinois has 1,519 high schools, including 1,188 public schools and 331 private schools. Illinois ranks fifth in student enrollment and fifth in total number of schools among U.S. states. Illinois ranks 12th in student/teacher ratio and 30th for percentage of students on free or reduced lunches, according to HighSchools.com.

None of the south suburban schools were ranked in the top 40 of the state while several schools in the north suburbs, west suburbs and city of Chicago were. Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park came in at No. 45 in Illinois rankings and No. 1,396 nationally.

Evergreen Park Community High School landed in the 78 spot among Illinois schools and scored 2349 in the National Rankings. The school boasts an 85 percent graduation rate and 23.9 percent in college readiness, earning EPHS a silver medal.

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In Illinois, Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago earned the title of the best high school in the state. Overall, the school ranked as the 40th best high school in the country. Payton College Preparatory High School in Chicago ranked as the second best in the state, followed by Jones College Prep High School, also in Chicago. Fourteen Illinois high schools were given gold medals by U.S. News, 67 received silver medals and the remaining 24 schools received bronze medals.

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Patch National Editor Shannon Antinori contributed to this report.