Niles North High School

Niles North High School
Address
9800 N. Lawler Avenue
Skokie, Illinois, 60077
United States
Coordinates 42°03′35″N 87°45′17″W / 42.0596°N 87.7546°WCoordinates: 42°03′35″N 87°45′17″W / 42.0596°N 87.7546°W
Information
School type Public, Secondary
Opened 1964
Status Open
School district Niles Twp. Community H.S. 219
NCES District ID 1728530[1]
Superintendent Dr. Nanciann Gatta
NCES School ID 172853002986[1]
Principal Dr. Ryan McTague
Teaching staff 161.77 (FTE))[1]
Grades 9-12[1]
Gender coed[1]
Enrollment 2106[1] (2009-10)
Student to teacher ratio 13.02:1[1]
Campus type suburban[1]
Color(s)      purple
     white[2]
Athletics conference Central Suburban League North
Team name Vikings
Newspaper North Star News
Yearbook SAGA[3]
Website official website

Niles North High School, or NNHS, is a public four-year high school located in Skokie, Illinois, a North Shore suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Niles Township Community High School District 219, which also includes Niles West High School. It is also home to several Special Education programs, including the Anchor, Bridges, & SAILS programs. The current enrollment for this school is around 2,300 students.

Academics

In 2005, Niles North High School had an average composite ACT score of 23.9, and graduated 98.9% of its senior class. The average class size is 16.1. Niles North has not made Adequate Yearly Progress on the Prairie State Achievement Examination(PSAE), a state test part of the No Child Left Behind Act.[4] A campaign, "Head North" has been started near the end of 2006 that is intended to improve the school's ACT score before the PSAE testing along with other resource such as test-taking workshops to assisting sophomores who have struggled on the pre-ACT examination called the PLAN test.

Niles North High School currently enrolls 2,200 student a year, which is 400 students less than its sister-school Niles West High School.

Athletics

Niles North competes in the Central Suburban League and Illinois High School Association. Its mascot is the purple, powerful Viking. Recently the legality of the Viking mascot and its depiction on school grounds and articles has come under dispute due to the image's extreme similarity to that of the NFL team Minnesota Vikings. In the summer of 2007 the school's football field was updated with synthetic turf. This provided ample room to improve the quality of the workouts of the school's most prized and cherished athletic team, the soccer team.

Extra-curricular awards and recognition

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Niles North High School". Statistical abstract. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). October 2009. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
  2. ↑ "Skokie (NIles North)". School information. Illinois High School Association (IHSA). 21 August 2011. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
  3. ↑ "Clubs". Directory. Niles North High School. 2011. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
  4. ↑ Illinois School Report Card
  5. ↑ "North Star Wins International First Place Award", news release at Niles North High School Web site, accessed February 19, 2007
  6. ↑ "Niles North Wins School of the Year at History Expo", news release at Niles North High School Web site, accessed February 19, 2007History Students Win First at State, Qualify for Nationalshttp://www.niles-hs.k12.il.us/north/news.asp?NewsID=982
  7. ↑ "The Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network and National School Boards Association Announce Recipient of the 2007 Award", the official press released linked from the school's website, accessed April 18, 2007. (PDF File)
  8. ↑ Lefkowitz, David (25 September 2001). "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Gregg Edelman". Playbill Online. Retrieved 6 July 2011. GE: I never really thought about performing at all. But when I was a freshman at Niles North High School ...
  9. ↑ Pisarcik, Kristin (September 7, 2007). "Mikes Math". ABC News. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
  10. ↑ Stone, Andrew C. "Erin Heatherton Is No Average Bombshell". Michigan Avenue Magazine. Retrieved 6 July 2011. “I didn’t even know who Kate Moss was,” laughs Heatherton, who has been with the Marilyn agency since her senior year at Niles North High School.
  11. ↑ Patch Staff (10 March 2011), "Skokie Native Makes Forbes Rich List", Skokie Patch (Skokie, IL, USA), retrieved 6 July 2011, Former Niles North alum Michael Krasny made Forbes' "Richest People in America" list again in 2011. Krasny is founder and chief executive officer of the CDW Corporation, which mainly sells computers and computer related products.
  12. ↑ "Brent Novoselsky". statistics and biographical information. Football Database.com. Retrieved 6 July 2011. High School: Niles North (Skokie, IL)
  13. ↑ Temkin, Barry (1 September 1989), "Head of the class: Friday night is the beginning of the...", Chicago Tribune, retrieved 6 July 2011, The Packers waived tight end Brent Novoselsky of Niles North and Penn ...
  14. ↑ http://skokie.patch.com/groups/schools/p/mtv-picks-up-pilot-from-skokie-native
  15. ↑ Zalusky, Steve (9 July 2004), "No short cuts this time for local filmmaker.", Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), retrieved 6 July 2011, Former Arlington Heights resident Marc Selz, who filmed his debut feature, "Short Cut Road," in Long Grove ... Now, with the DVD out in stores, Selz, who attended Skokie's Niles North High School, has upped the stakes ...

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