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Hinsdale Central Ranked Among Top Illinois High Schools
Hinsdale Central High School was ranked No. 10 in Illinois, and Hinsdale South High School earned the No. 30 spot.
Hinsdale Central High School was ranked No. 10 in Illinois and No. 356 nationally in the 2016 list, and Hinsdale South High School earned the No. 30 state spot and No. 829 in the country.
Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago earned the title of best high school in the state, according to the report.
This year's list shows Hinsdale Central has improved by one spot in the state since last year, when it was named the 11th best high school in Illinois. Hinsdale South has climbed two spot from last year’s No. 32 rank.
Below is the U.S. News rank breakdown for the D86 schools.
Hinsdale Central High School:
Medal Awarded: Gold
National Rank: #356
State Rank: #10
STEM Rank: #111
College Readiness Index: 61.2 (out of 100)
Graduation Rate: 94 percent
Hinsdale South High School:
Medal Awarded: Silver
National Rank: #829
State Rank: #30
College Readiness Index: 46.5 (out of 100)
Graduation Rate: 91 percent
Methodology
RTI International, a North Carolina-based research firm, used the U.S. News comprehensive rankings methodology, which is based on these key principles: that a great high school must serve all of its students well, not just those who are college bound, and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show it is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators, according to U.S. News.
The state rankings methodology is based on whether a high school is nationally ranked gold or silver. All high schools nationally ranked gold and silver are numerically ranked in their states based on their position in the national rankings.
Gold medals: Schools with the highest unrounded College Readiness Index values were numerically ranked from No. 1 to No. 500 and were the gold medal winners.
Silver medals: The high schools ranked from No. 501 to No. 2,673 were the 2,173 silver medal winners. Only schools with CRI values at or above 20.17 received this medal because that was the median – the statistical midpoint – of all the College Readiness Index values among high schools with AP or IB test-takers.
Bronze medals: An additional 3,545 high schools that passed the first three steps in the methodology were awarded bronze medals and are listed alphabetically. A bronze medal school either does not offer any AP or IB courses or its College Readiness Index was less than the median of 20.17 needed to receive a silver medal.
More Info
Best Illinois High Schools List
U.S. News & World Report National Rankings 2016
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