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Deerfield High School → Wheeling High School → Lake Forest High School → Glenbrook North High School → Niles North High School → Buffalo Grove High School → Maine East High School → John Hersey High School →📋 At a glance
- 📚 23 AP courses offered — Elite
- 🔢 8 calculus classes · 27 physics · 23 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 76th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Top 2.7% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Highland Park High School compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 24% nationally with 23 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyIL sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Deerfield High School, Wheeling High School, Lake Forest High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
76th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Top 2.7% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $14,355/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -2.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,661 students:
≈ 206 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $39,199 per student in district revenue, the 206 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $8,074,994/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deerfield High School Deerfield |
Public | 2.7 | 1,437 | -3.7% |
| Wheeling High School Wheeling |
Public | 8.4 | 1,743 | +0.1% |
| Lake Forest High School Lake Forest |
Public | 5.3 | 1,359 | -7.4% |
| Glenbrook North High School Northbrook |
Public | 5.9 | 2,111 | +2.9% |
| Niles North High School Skokie |
Public | 9.5 | 1,999 | -3.1% |
| Buffalo Grove High School Buffalo Grove |
Public | 10.0 | 2,021 | +2.5% |
| Maine East High School Park Ridge |
Public | 11.1 | 1,921 | +2.4% |
| John Hersey High School Arlington Heights |
Public | 10.2 | 2,040 | -0.4% |