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New Trier Township H S Northfield
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About New Trier Township H S Northfield
New Trier Township H S Northfield is a 9-12 campus of average-sized scale in Northfield, Illinois, run under New Trier Twp HSD 203, enrolling 886 students in grade 9.
New Trier Township H S Northfield is one of 2 schools operated by New Trier Twp HSD 203, a district that hosts 3,656 students overall.
On demographics, New Trier Township H S Northfield shows that White students make up the majority at 73%; the rest comes out to 9% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which New Trier Township H S Northfield is one.
Avoca West Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Trier Township H S Northfield has ticked down 11%, going from 991 students in 2018 to 886 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 79% to 73% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.
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