Glenbrook North High School

Glenbrook North High School operates as a well-populated four-year high school in Northbrook, Illinois, one of the schools within Glenbrook HSD 225. Current enrollment sits at 2,111 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Glenbrook North High School sits 153% above that benchmark.

Glenbrook HSD 225 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 5,034 students. Glenbrook North High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Glenbrook North High School lists that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 23% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 161 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Glenbrook North High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Maple School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Glenbrook North High School's enrollment has climbed 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,988 (now 2,111). Over the same period, the White share declined from 75% to 66%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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