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School District 64 Rated Among Top 9% in Illinois; Earns Bright Red Apple Award for 2013

District 64 among only 78 tapped for award

Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 has been rated in the top 9% of school districts across Illinois and has earned the 2013 Bright Red Apple Award for educational excellence from SchoolSearch, an independent research and consulting firm.  It’s the 19th year that District 64 has been selected for “providing students with an outstanding educational environment,” the award notes.

Using objective data from the 2012 Illinois State Report Cards, only 78 of the state’s 866 districts merited the distinction.

District 64 “is strong in all five family-favored categories” compared by SchoolSearch, including:  academic performance of students in grades 3-8 in math and reading on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT); pupil/teacher ratio; operating expenditure per pupil; educational level of teachers; and average teacher salary.

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“It’s not surprising that District 64 schools draw attention state-wide to the Park Ridge-Niles community as a great place for families to settle and grow,” Superintendent Philip Bender noted.  “With the community’s tremendous ongoing support, our schools maintain a tradition of quality education that creates a highly desirable environment that benefits families with students in our schools and all who live and work here, too,” he added.


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