New Trier High School

New Trier Township High School District 203 is a comprehensive four-year high school in Northfield and Winnetka, Illinois, along the Lake Michigan shore and approximately 16 miles north of Chicago.

New Trier serves Chicago’s North Shore suburban communities of Glencoe, Kenilworth, Northfield, Wilmette, Winnetka and portions of Glenview and Northbrook — communities that reflect a tradition of support for academic and cultural achievement. Freshmen are housed on the Northfield Campus. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors are housed on the Winnetka Campus.

Governed by its own Board of Education, the district serves six sender public school districts (kindergarten through eighth grade), each with its own governing board. Local private and parochial schools also graduate students who advance to New Trier High School.

New Trier offers a rigorous college preparatory curriculum and routinely ranks among Illinois' very top schools on standardized test achievement. For the Class of 2012, the average composite score on the ACT examination was 27.7, the highest for a non-magnet school in Illinois. Ninety-eight percent of the Class of 2012 enrolled in college.

As evidence of the New Trier motto, “to commit minds to inquiry, hearts to compassion, and lives to the service of humanity,” New Trier offers numerous opportunities for learning and involvement outside of the classroom in activities, athletics, fine/performing arts, and social service. Its 35 interscholastic athletic teams have won more athletic state championships than any high school in Illinois interscholastic history.