Niles West & North, Maine East Nationally Ranked by Newsweek

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Newsweek has ranked Niles West High School and Niles North High School as the #785 and #833 schools in the country respectively. The magazine ranked Maine East High School at #1,817. It ranked what it named as the top 2,000 schools nationally. Neither Maine South nor Maine West High Schools in Maine Township High School District 207 made the list. 

Responding to Maine East's ranking, District 207 spokesman Dave Beery said, "We are always pleased to see recognition of the hard work and teaching innovation occurring in all of our schools."

He said the district was going to take a closer look at Newsweek's methodology as to why Maine South, which typically appears high on "best high schools" lists, was unranked.

Here’s a look at how other North Shore high schools ranked among the magazine’s list of the best public high schools in the nation.

Rank    

School Name

158

New Trier Township High School

182

Glenbrook North High School

325

Glenbrook South High School

785

Niles West High School

833

Niles North High School       

1267

Evanston Township High School

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For its rankings, Newsweek sent out a survey to more than 5,000 high schools in the U.S., with about 2,500 schools responding in 2013. You can see the details about Niles West's ranking, and every other ranked high school by clicking on the markers in the interactive map above.

The survey scores were then weighted and calculated using several criteria including on-time graduation and college acceptance rates. In addition, instead of averaging the number of courses offered, this year Newsweek considered the percentage of students enrolled in AP, IB or Advance International Certificate courses. The final scores then determined Newsweek’s final rankings.

You can read more about Newsweek's methodology here.