2014 Guide to Chicago’s Private High Schools

In October, the open-house rush begins: Parents will be dragging their seventh and eighth graders to Chicago-area high schools, both public and private, to see what they’re like. And it’s a stress fest. If you live in the city, your kid will face an uphill battle trying to get into one of CPS’s 10 selective enrollment high schools, even if he or she is whip-smart: A whopping 16,440 students competed for 3,200 freshman seats for the 2013–14 school year. And if you live in a suburb with an excellent high school, you still have to figure out if it’s right for your child. For example, not every adolescent will thrive at a place as big as Evanston Township High School (3,120 students last year), Oak Park and River Forest High School (3,266), or Winnetka’s New Trier Township High School (4,208).

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