Where are the best PUBLIC high schools?

Nam3less
Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:33:27 +0000

That list is a joke. No way in hell is Lincoln Park High School is that good. Anyone who lives in Chicago will tell you that.



Actually, anybody who even thinks that list is right is a moron. That is the worst way to measure top schools:

Some of the top in Illinois:

IMSA
Northside College Prep
Whitney Young
Walter Payton
Jones
Lane Tech(lower magnet tier but not bad, definitely above Lincoln Park).

These are all most of the good city high schools. Outside the city there is New Trier or Tier(I can’t remember), Naperville North, Naperville Central High. There are a few more good public schools.

I believe every single school on this list has at least a 22 ACT Avg or better. Some have a much higher avg ACT. Many of these have students accepted into prestigious universities ranging from Ivies to some like University of Chicago and Northwestern Universty, etc.

I guess this covers pretty much all of Illinois. The Suntimes webpage used to have the top 50 in Illinois(not ranked by APs) but I think they took it down for some reason.