Hinsdale D86 High Schools Ranked Among Best in Illinois

Hinsdale Township High School District 86 high schools are among the best in the state, according to annual rankings by U.S. News and World Report.

Hinsdale Central High School was ranked No. 11 in Illinois, and Hinsdale South High School earned the No. 32 spot. Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago earned the top spot in the state.

This updated list shows Hinsdale Central has fallen a few spots since last year, when it was named the 7th best high school in the state. Hinsdale South has climbed two spot from last year’s No. 34 rank.

Below is the U.S. News rank breakdown for the D86 schools.

Hinsdale Central High School:

Medal Awarded: Gold
National Rank: #394
State Rank: #11
STEM Rank: #115

College Readiness Index: 56.6 (out of 100)
Proficient in Reading: 89 percent
Proficient in Mathematics: 89 percent
Student/Teacher Ratio: 10:1

Hinsdale South High School:

Medal Awarded: Silver
National Rank: #711
State Rank: #32

College Readiness Index: 46 (out of 100)
Proficient in Reading: 70 percent
Proficient in Mathematics: 65 percent
Student/Teacher Ratio: 8:1

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.

See the full U.S. News report here.

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