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Bolingbrook Schools With The Best Teachers For 2020

Curious who the best teachers in Illinois are? Here's a ranking that has the answers.

BOLINGBROOK, IL — The beginning of the school year is a good time to do a little research on how your teachers stack up against others — whether you’re sending your children to kindergarten for the first time or if they’re preparing to graduate.

Niche, which rates everything in education, has created a list of what it considers the schools with the best teachers in Bolingbrook.

According to Niche.com, the rankings are based on seven factors: academic grades, parent/student surveys on teachers, teacher absenteeism, teacher salary index, teachers in their first or second year, average teacher salary and the student-teacher ratio.

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Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora has the best teachers in the state, according to the rankings. With 647 total students in the school, and a student-teacher ratio of 12:1, the academy had both an A+ rating in teachers and overall niche grade. New Trier High School was second on the list.

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Of the Bolingbrook-area schools, the highest ranking school within the Valley View School Distict is Jane Addams Middle School, which came in at No. 14 for area schools with the best teachers. Of the top 20 local schools with the best teachers, only two are in Valley View: Jane Addams and Pioneer Elementary School, which was No. 19.

So we broke it down by school list to compile the Valley View schools with the best teachers. Here are the top 20 schools in the Bolingbrook area with the best teachers, with the teacher score in parentheses:

  1. Jane Addams Middle School (A-)
  2. Pioneer Elementary School (B+)
  3. Brooks Middle School (B)
  4. Hubert Humphrey Middle School (B)
  5. Robert Hill Elementary School (B-)
  6. Romeoville High School (B-)
  7. A Vito Martinez Middle School (B-)
  8. Oak View Elementary School (B-)
  9. Bolingbrook High School (B-)
  10. Skoff Elementary School (B-)

To view the full list of Valley View schools, click here. For best schools considered in the Bolingbrook area, click here.

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