Vernon Hills High School

Vernon Hills High School is a secondary school of roomy scale in Vernon Hills, Illinois, overseen by CHSD 128, serveing 1,419 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 70% bigger than the state mean of about 834.

CHSD 128 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 3,196 students; Vernon Hills High School is among them.

Demographically, Vernon Hills High School reports that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Lake County as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 115 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Lake County shows the typical household earns roughly $110,416 per year, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Vernon Hills High School is one of 214 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students).

Hawthorn Sch for Young Learners is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Vernon Hills High School.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vernon Hills High School has remained close to its prior level, going from 1,400 students in 2018 to 1,419 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 59% to 50% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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