Glenbrook South Ranked 32nd Most Challenging IL School

A national ranking confirms what many Glenbrook North and South students already know: both are challenging schools.

But not as challenging as others.

According to The High School Challenge, released recently by the Washington Post, North and South came in 31st and 32nd respectively among Illinois high schools. Fifty-six schools were studied.

Nationwide, Glenbrook North came in 1074 and Glenbrook South ranks 1100 out of more than 1,900 schools in the study.

Okay, so how did these rankings come about?

Well the paper applied a simple formula: the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or other college-level tests a school gave in 2010 divided by the number of graduating seniors.

Earlier this month, . Glenbrook South was not included on that list, despite ranking of other neighboring schools including Glenbrook North (#19), New Trier (#13), Evanston Township (#17) and both Highland Park (#12) and Deerfield High Schools (#7). 

The rankings were released as part of the Best High School rankings, now in its fourth edition, according to the Huffington Post. To be eligible for a state ranking, a school must be a national gold or silver medal winner, neither of which was awarded to Glenbrook South. 

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