Niles West High School in Skokie | Military Town Advisor

Category	Rating	Details
College Readiness	6/10	The College Readiness Rating uses this high school's graduation rates, college entrance exam participation and performance, or AP, IB, or Dual Enrollment participation to determine how well schools are preparing students for success in college and beyond. The College Readiness Rating was created using the following data from the 2021 Civil Rights Data Collection: percentage of students enrolled in IB, AP or Dual Enrollment classes in grades 9-12, using 2025 4-year high school graduation rate data from Illinois State Board of Education, and using 2025 demographic data from Illinois State Board of Education.

Posted: May 26, 2026

A LITERAL HELLHOLE. send your kid here if you want them to hate you forever

Posted: May 26, 2026

Posted: May 1, 2026

Horrible Horrible school dont send a child here! Nobody stops the fights or the bullying or even the smoking and drinking in the bathroom! dont send a child here.

Posted: May 1, 2026

Posted: April 21, 2026

1st year for my child and nothing but great experience.
Teachers are amazing.
small and focused group classes.
Athletic department is superb.

Posted: April 21, 2026

Posted: February 21, 2025

My kid just started niles west this year..there are a lot of hallway fights all the time..boys hitting each other really really brutally. Security doesn't do anything, the kids just get suspended and yes that's all. There were times when teaching was a reputable profession not anymore, nowadays teachers teach for money, they care less about their students. No moral values taught to kids. What kid of community we're building. My child is continously getting bullied and harrased. Also sone kids have weapons too. I would never recommend niles west if you want your child safety.

Posted: February 21, 2025

Posted: February 20, 2024

Aaliyah Guerrier
1 review

7 years ago
Being a student here all four years literally was probably the worst experience I have ever had this school honestly only cares if you are bringing something good to their name. A lot of teachers here do not teach they don't care if you pass or fail because they're only in it for the money. I had a physics teacher that I asked so kindly to change because he wasn't doing his job and I've always asked for help but he had no clue what he was doing . Everyone always tried to turn it on me like I wasn't doing anything but previous classes have told me that he was the worst teacher. That wasn't my only incident with a bad teacher. My sophomore English teacher was pretty bad as well he didn't teacher either. This school is also filled with rude people it's a very diverse school but there is groups other races don't really talk to each other like that. In my opinion I would not ever send my child to this school for the simple fact that they would have to teach themselves all four years. And it's always your fault at this school. / Everything what Aaliyah wrote is exactly what my kids experienced.

Posted: February 20, 2024

Posted: September 25, 2023

This school is alright, but Freshman Year is HE-double-hockey-sticks, so watch out 8th graders. luckily, 10th grade is epic.
also Boys love to smoke in the boys bathrooms and they are usually dirty. same with it's sibling school Niles North.

Posted: August 10, 2022

I would most certainly not recommend this school. The principal is not present, does not respond to emails and lacks genuine compassion and concern for her students. Antwan Babakhani is equally unresponsive and when he is responsive, not very helpful. There is ZERO support for the social and emotional needs of these children. In instances when there have been situations on campuses, the staff reply with cut and paste emails that again, lack any personalization or concern for their students. I am very grateful that my child has graduated from this school and is naturally a self motivating person who was able to excel on her own. For any student who needs a bit of a push, enouragement, or any extra attention from administration - you will not get it at Niles West. But you CAN be sure that they will have time to tweet endlessly and share self praise before they finally get around to your email.

Posted: August 10, 2022

Posted: April 13, 2021

I have two graduates from Niles West. They both continued their education and now have Masters degrees. Both have excellent jobs and School District 219 gets the credit for their preparation for their success.

Posted: April 13, 2021

Posted: January 24, 2020

Terrible school. I wouldnt recommend it and think that tax payer dollars are best spent elsewhere

Posted: January 24, 2020

One example of this is Nanciann Gatta. Terrible admin

Posted: January 24, 2020

Happi Bills bullies her students to take certain classes

Posted: November 1, 2019

5 Stars. This high school gave me so many different perspectives and prepped me for college!

Posted: November 1, 2019

Posted: August 29, 2019

They are the best thats why their at NW

Posted: August 29, 2019

The best of the best thats Niles West. Overall experience 10 star. Cuz I went there.

Posted: August 29, 2019

Its niles west the best of the best!

Posted: June 21, 2019

Wonderful teachers, students, and other faculty members.

Posted: November 2, 2018

Both my children feel challenged with the level of homework. This prepared them for college.

Posted: November 2, 2018

This school feels like a much smaller school and we don't hear about any major issues. Our children feel comfortable and are able to focus on their education and extraciricular activites

Posted: November 2, 2018

Our kids are comfortable there and they haven't told us about issues with bullying.

Posted: November 2, 2018

Great fine arts program, many extracirricular activities, high caliber students will be challenged here as well as everyone else.

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Niles West High School

Skokie, IL 60077

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