Summary:
North Chicago Community High School is the only high school in North Chicago School District 187, serving grades 9–12 and 898 students. With just one school in the group, there is no school-to-school ranking or peer comparison. The main concern is that 2025–2026 proficiency was below state levels in every reported subject and grade, with gaps of 25 to 33 percentage points.
There is no separate top- or bottom-performing school; the strongest and weakest results are within this school’s subjects. Across the three test-and-grade comparisons, science had the smallest average gap from the state, at 27 percentage points, while ELA had the largest, at 30 points; math averaged a 29-point gap. These relative strengths do not mean scores were close to state levels. In the latest results, science was the highest ACT subject at 17% proficient, while math was lowest at 9%; ELA led the PreACT results, at 32% in grade 9 and 26% in grade 10. Attendance is another notable concern: chronic absenteeism was 41%, 18 points above the state, while graduation was 85%, 5 points below it.
ACT results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: school proficiency rose by 2 points in ELA and math and 4 points in science, narrowing the state gaps by 4, 2 and 5 points, respectively. PreACT was mixed: grade 10 math rose 7 points, but grade 9 science fell 6 points and grade 9 ELA fell 4 points. SchoolDigger placed the school at the 7th percentile in 2025–2026, down from the 13th percentile the prior year and the 15th percentile in 2023–2024; the number of schools included in those rankings changed. The student–teacher ratio was 15.2 in 2024–2025, and the school was listed as Community Eligibility (CEP) that year, meaning all students receive free meals through Community Eligibility.
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