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Maine South High School → New Trier Township H S Winnetka → Glenbrook South High School → Niles North High School → Evanston Twp High School → Maine East High School → Glenbrook North High School → Mather High School →📋 At a glance
- 📚 17 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 33 calculus classes · 23 physics · 33 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 90th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Top 4.9% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Niles West High School compares for families
Standout academic depth by national standards.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 10% nationally with 17 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: Maine South High School, New Trier Township H S Winnetka, Glenbrook South 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
90th 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 4.9% 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 most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss.
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 +1.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 2,646 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $40,449 per student in district revenue, the 143 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $5,784,207/year in additional funding.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maine South High School Park Ridge |
Public | 4.5 | 2,494 | +1.6% |
| New Trier Township H S Winnetka Winnetka |
Public | 5.5 | 2,770 | -7.5% |
| Glenbrook South High School Glenview |
Public | 6.0 | 2,923 | -5.1% |
| Niles North High School Skokie |
Public | 2.6 | 1,999 | -3.1% |
| Evanston Twp High School Evanston |
Public | 3.9 | 3,560 | -4.5% |
| Maine East High School Park Ridge |
Public | 4.5 | 1,921 | +2.4% |
| Glenbrook North High School Northbrook |
Public | 6.7 | 2,111 | +2.9% |
| Mather High School Chicago |
Public | 4.4 | 1,777 | -5.4% |