Schools in berwyn: Berwyn North School District 98
Top 10 Best Berwyn, IL Public Schools (2023)
For the 2023 school year, there are 15 public schools serving 10,197 students in Berwyn, IL (there are 6 private schools, serving 589 private students). 95% of all K-12 students in Berwyn, IL are educated in public schools (compared to the IL state average of 88%).
The top ranked public schools in Berwyn, IL are Edison Elementary School, Heritage Middle School and Lincoln Middle School. Overall testing rank is based on a school’s combined math and reading proficiency test score ranking.
Berwyn, IL public schools have an average math proficiency score of 13% (versus the Illinois public school average of 26%), and reading proficiency score of 20% (versus the 31% statewide average). Schools in Berwyn have an average ranking of 3/10, which is in the bottom 50% of Illinois public schools.
Minority enrollment is 94% of the student body (majority Hispanic), which is more than the Illinois public school average of 53% (majority Hispanic).
Best Berwyn, IL Public Schools (2023)
School (Math and Reading Proficiency)
Location
Grades
Students
Rank: #11.
Edison Elementary School
Math: 10-14% | Reading: 30-34%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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4100 Scoville Ave
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 783-4400
Grades: PK-5
| 287 students
Rank: #22.
Heritage Middle School
Math: 20% | Reading: 24%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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6850 31st St
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 749-6110
Grades: 6-8
| 536 students
Rank: #33.
Lincoln Middle School
Math: 13% | Reading: 26%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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6432 16th St
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 795-2475
Grades: 6-8
| 949 students
Rank: #44.
Freedom Middle School
Math: 15% | Reading: 23%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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3016 Ridgeland Ave
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 795-5800
Grades: 6-8
| 608 students
Rank: #55.
Piper School
Math: 10-14% | Reading: 20-24%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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2435 Kenilworth Ave
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 795-2364
Grades: K-5
| 332 students
Rank: #6 – 76. – 7.
Irving Elementary School
Math: 15-19% | Reading: 15-19%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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3501 Clinton Ave
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 795-2334
Grades: PK-5
| 443 students
Rank: #6 – 76. – 7.
Prairie Oak School
Math: 15-19% | Reading: 15-19%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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1427 Oak Park Ave
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 795-2442
Grades: PK-5
| 766 students
Rank: #88.
Pershing Elementary School
Math: 10-14% | Reading: 15-19%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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6537 37th St
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 795-2349
Grades: PK-5
| 415 students
Rank: #99.
J Sterling Morton West High School
Math: 11% | Reading: 17%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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2400 Home Ave
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 780-4100
Grades: 9-12
| 3,631 students
Rank: #10 – 1210.
– 12.
Home Elementary School
Math: 6-9% | Reading: 15-19%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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4400 Home Ave
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 783-4500
Grades: PK-5
| 267 students
Rank: #10 – 1210. – 12.
Jefferson Elementary School
Math: 6-9% | Reading: 15-19%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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7035 16th St
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 795-2454
Grades: PK-5
| 496 students
Rank: #10 – 1210. – 12.
Karel Havlicek Elementary School
Math: 6-9% | Reading: 15-19%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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6401 15th St
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 795-2451
Grades: PK-5
| 497 students
Rank: #1313.
Komensky Elementary School
Math: 10-14% | Reading: 6-9%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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2515 Cuyler Ave
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 795-2342
Grades: PK-5
| 340 students
Rank: #14 – 1514. – 15.
Emerson Elementary School
Math: 6-9% | Reading: 10-14%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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6850 31st St
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 795-2322
Grades: PK-5
| 268 students
Rank: #14 – 1514.
– 15.
Hiawatha Elementary School
Math: 6-9% | Reading: 10-14%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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6539 26th St
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 795-2327
Grades: PK-5
| 362 students
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Berwyn, Illinois Public Schools (Closed)
School
Location
Grades
Students
North Berwyn Special Education (Closed 2021)
Special Education School
6633 W 16th St
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 484-6200
Grades: n/a
| n/a students
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the top ranked public schools in Berwyn, IL?
The top ranked public schools in Berwyn, IL include Edison Elementary School, Heritage Middle School and Lincoln Middle School.
How many public schools are located in Berwyn, IL?
15 public schools are located in Berwyn, IL.
What percentage of students in Berwyn, IL go to public school?
95% of all K-12 students in Berwyn, IL are educated in public schools (compared to the IL state average of 88%).
What is the racial composition of students in Berwyn, IL?
Berwyn, IL public schools minority enrollment is 94% of the student body (majority Hispanic), which is more than the Illinois public schools average of 53% (majority Hispanic).
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Best Private Schools in Berwyn, IL (2023)
For the 2023 school year, there are 6 private schools serving 589 students in Berwyn, IL (there are 15 public schools, serving 10,197 public students). 5% of all K-12 students in Berwyn, IL are educated in private schools (compared to the IL state average of 12%).
50% of private schools in Berwyn, IL are religiously affiliated (most commonly Catholic and Lutheran Church Missouri Synod).
Private Schools in Berwyn, IL (2023)
School
Location
Grades
Students
The Angels Child Development Center
Daycare / Preschool
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6732 34th St
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 788-3108
Grades: PK-1
| 42 students
Concordia Little Lambs Lutheran Preschool
Daycare / Preschool (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod)
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3144 Home Avenue
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 795-7563
Grades: NS-PK
| 53 students
Happy Days Child Development Center
Daycare / Preschool
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6304 26th Street
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 795-0099
Grades: K
| 20 students
Lectura Montessori School
Montessori School
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6823 W Rossevelt Rd
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 393-6012
Grades: PK-6
| 44 students
St. Leonard School
(Catholic)
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3322 Clarence Ave
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 749-3666
Grades: PK-8
| 214 students
St.
Odilo Continuation School
(Catholic)
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6617 23rd St
Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 484-0755
Grades: PK-8
| 216 students
Frequently Asked Questions
How many private schools are located in Berwyn, IL?
6 private schools are located in Berwyn, IL.
How diverse are private schools in Berwyn, IL?
Berwyn, IL private schools are approximately 84% minority students, which is higher than the Illinois private school average of 34%.
What percentage of students in Berwyn, IL go to private school?
5% of all K-12 students in Berwyn, IL are educated in private schools (compared to the IL state average of 12%).
What percentage of private schools are religiously affiliated in Berwyn, IL?
50% of private schools in Berwyn, IL are religiously affiliated (most commonly Catholic and Lutheran Church Missouri Synod).
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Application for school start in summer 2023 is still possible – apply by 30 JUNE 2023 and save up to 900 €!
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The public schools that GLS works with are located in interesting German cities full of history and culture.
Accommodation is organized in host families, which are carefully selected and supervised. Please find detailed information about schools and host families at the end of this page. Advantages of day schools compared to boarding schools:
- They are more affordable than boarding houses
- You can come for a short period of time: 2 or 3 months. Disadvantage: You can’t get an abitur here, if you need one, you can get one at one of these boarding/boarding schools.
Requirements
Day school requirements:
- Age 14-17
- German level B1 (online test)*
*If you don’t speak German, take one of our online German courses.
| 49 select** | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 months | 3 months | 5.120 € | 6.020 € | |
| 4 months | 6. 090 € |
7.390 € | ||
| 5 months | 6.890 € | 8.490 € | from 14.650 € | |
| 15.650 € | from 26.450 € | |||
* CLASSIC: no choice of city
** SELECT: choice of city. See choices HERE. Please indicate a 1st and 2nd choice.
Late application fee (for applications less than 6 months prior to arrival in Germany):
900 € for a school year, 500 € for a semester
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PAYMENT:
- 20% – 10 days after receipt of the invoice
- 50% – 4 months before arrival
- 30% – 2 months before arrival
INCLUDED:
- online interview with the applicant, very soon after receiving his/her application
- placement at a German high school
- accommodation as booked, boarding or host family, full board
- extracurricular German course one afternoon per week
- supervision by a member of GLS staff
- providing of all necessary information material
- a certificate of attendance, issued by the German high school
- 3 GLS reports per year, 2 per semester local coordinator
- transfer from the nearest airport or station to accommodation
- help with all questions and problems from GLS office Berlin and the respective regional office
Not included are:
- Berlin weekend (incl accommodation and sightseeing) in MAR and NOV: 460 €
- insurance (liability, medical, accident, personal items): 10 EUR/week – obligatory
- single room guarantee – 100 EUR/month
- pocket money – ca.
Euro 150 – Euro 200 per month - books and course material
- for non-boarders traveling expenses between school and accommodation
- preparatory online German courses
90 019 letter of invitation for visa application – 150 EUR
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Euro 150 – Euro 200 per month book
The GLS does not send you “somewhere” in Germany – with the GLS you can go to school in interesting cities such as Berlin, Bremen or Bayreuth. You can even choose city
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Highlight: Weekends in Berlin
One of the highlights of our high school program: twice a year we arrange weekends in Berlin for all excange students in Germany
Schools: “Gymnasium” in Germany
What is a “gymnasium”?
We accommodate international students at Gymnasien .
The gymnasium is a secondary school that leads to the university. The curriculum is fairly academic, with two foreign languages plus math and science courses. Ca. 30% of German students attend this type of secondary school (read more about the Gymnasium and the school system in Germany)
Abitur
The final examination is called the Abitur and provides access to university studies. However, the choice of places to study at the university and educational institutions is limited: only students with a very good Abitur can study where and what they want. Please note: Students planning to do Abitour must attend a private school, Abitour cannot be in public schools.
Two of the high schools, we work with in Berlin: Heinrich Schliemann Gymnasium (Google map) and Gabriele von Bülow Gymnasium (map).
Academic year in Germany
The school year starts at AUG/SEP, holidays vary from state to state (6 weeks in the summer plus 2 weeks each in the fall, around Christmas and around Easter).
School days are MON – FRI, usually 8am – 1pm or 2pm, which leaves plenty of time to join local sports or arts clubs in the afternoon or weekend.
Examples
You can choose the city where you would like to go to school (ie Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg), but you cannot choose a specific school. To give you an idea of what the schools look like, see the websites of some of the gymnasiums we partner with in BERLIN:
- John Lennon Gymnasium in Berlin
- Humboldt Gymnasium in Berlin
- Gabriele von Bülow Gymnasium in Berlin
- Schiller Gymnasium in Berlin
- Heinrich Schliemann Gymnasium in Berlin
9001 9 Bettina von Arnim Gymnasium in Berlin
host families
All families have been inspected by GLS. Some have sons and daughters, who do an exchange program as well: While their kids families go to school in Canada, France or Argentina, they are happy to welcome an exchange student going to school in Germany.
The families live within easy reach of the school that you attend. They provide a single room and full board. More about host families in the FAQ section.
how you live
You will have a single or a shared room. A single room guarantee can be booked for a fee of 100 EUR per month. What do you share with them are living room, kitchen, bathroom.
Your host family provides full board – breakfast, evening meal and packed lunch Monday to Friday; breakfast, lunch and evening meal on Saturday and Sunday. We ask the host family to cook as they would for themselves.
student care
The GLS High School team in Berlin
The GLS high school team in Berlin will be your first contact in Germany: You´ll meet them during the Berlin weekends, and if you go to high school in Berlin, you can contact them anytime you want.
They also organize regular activities for all exchange stundents in Berlin, i.e. weekend trips to Prague or Hamburg – a great way to meet other internationals going to school in Germany.
Please see here short portraits of the cosmopolitan GLS high school team in Berlin
Local coordinators in other cities
If you don´t go to school in Berlin, but – say – in Hamburg or Nürnberg, you will be supported by a local coordinator throughout your stay. Your coordinator lives in the same city as you and is in contact with you via email, phone and personal meetings. If you have any problems or need help, the coordinator will be by your side.
All local coordinators arrange extra-curricular activities for exchange students – like, for example, a visit to the local bowling center, a meetup at a Christmas market or a day trip to a nearby city.
They are also happy to help and consult if you want to join a sports club, learn things horseback riding or take music lessons.
You can “meet” some of the local coordinators in Bremen, Hamburg Lübeck if you click on the respective link next to the photo
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In the Russian system, the school is often tied to the place of registration and you cannot choose the best school from two nearby schools – only the one to which your house is “attached”. Yes, you can enter a gymnasium if you prepare, if you pay, if you negotiate. However, there are very few options to choose from.
In Germany, the first problem that comes to you is choice. It turns out that you have the right to choose the school for your child.
And then the question arises before parents: how to choose it? Is it better to have a school near your home or in a prestigious area? Public or private? German, Russian, Russian-German or international? Or maybe a Waldorf school or one of the free schools is suitable for your child, in which there is a minimum of discipline and a maximum of creativity?
Of course, the choice is up to you, but it’s good to know what schools are and why they are good.
The location of the school matters, of course. It is believed that it is highly undesirable for younger students to spend more than half an hour on the road. School near the house in this case is the most convenient option.
When our family moved to Berlin, I went to the town hall for a referral to a kindergarten for my daughter, who at that time was 5 years and 10 months old. There they told me: “What kindergarten? Your daughter is already required to attend school! Didn’t you get a letter?”
And indeed, the next day, we found an invitation from the school next door in the mailbox.
As soon as we registered at the place of residence as visitors, the bureaucratic wheel began to spin. Since the end of the 19th century, children in Germany have been required to attend school (home education is not allowed here) – so welcome to the classroom!
With this referral, on the advice of an official, I went to a person who advises on school education. This step can be skipped – I wanted to understand which school is better to send the child to so suddenly: to the Russian at the embassy, to the Russian-German or to the usual German.
I came across a thoughtful uncle who listened to my lingering German, clarified whether the child could write and read in his native language, and advised me to go to a Russian-German school:
“Children who cannot read and write study at the Neukölln schools, they grew up watching TV, the first grade is spent learning the alphabet and integrating them into society: to tell that spring gives way to summer, and in autumn the trees lose their leaves.
Go to school harder.” So my daughter found herself in the European School at the Brandenburg Gate in mid-October.
The very idea of European schools deserves a separate description. This is an exclusively Berlin project of bilingual schools – German-French, German-Polish, German-Turkish, Greek, Italian, Spanish and so on. There are a little more than a dozen of them and they provide a classical German primary education plus a second mother tongue in the volume of the country of origin. That is, not as a foreign language, but as a second native. As a rule, upon admission to such a school, a test is conducted, which determines the main language of the child and the second.
Further in the language classes, the children are divided into two groups: while some have German as the first, others have Russian as the second, then vice versa. For the second language, the requirements are lower, for example, shorter and easier texts are given for reading, but by the sixth grade the child is obliged to read unadapted books in both languages and write short essays in both.
Because the program is so intense, the children study all day, from 8 am to 4 pm. This mode is called Ganztagsschule – a full-time school. This is convenient for working parents, but if your child is into music, sports or dancing, then in the evenings it may be difficult for you and him to find strength.
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In most schools, in addition to the teacher, primary school students are assigned a teacher who accompanies the children to the canteen or for a walk, looks after them during recess, helps the teacher during joint trips to a concert or picnic . In our class, it was always men, which I really liked. Do you remember how tough the school staff was in the schools of our childhood? And then there are young guys with whom children can kick a ball at recess or who they can come to with a request to judge their funny children’s disputes.
The Russian school at the embassy is a familiar Russian school, to which it makes sense to send a child to if you come to Berlin for a year or two and then return to Russia, where your child will finish school – in this case it is better not to interrupt the educational process.
In addition to two primary European and one Russian-German secondary school (Sekundarschule is not a gymnasium, but it allows you to take final exams that give you the right to enter the university – an analogue of the Russian Unified State Examination), there is a private Russian-German school named after Lomonosov in Berlin with branches in the Tiergarten (west of Berlin) and Marzahn (its eastern part). In them, lessons are also held in both languages, a small number of children in the class allows the teacher to be attentive to each child, but education is paid. The amount per month directly depends on the income of both parents.
The same fee scheme is used in all other private schools in Berlin – there are a large number of them, but opinions about the quality of education differ in them. As a rule, private schools are able to retain good teachers with higher pay, and a motivated teacher means interesting lessons and, as a result, deep knowledge. In addition, they all offer a wide range of different school and extracurricular activities: dancing, theater, ceramics, foreign languages, etc.
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These schools are criticized for the sometimes low level of discipline and the attitude of parents according to the principle “I cry, and you make a person out of my child.”
I spoke with a teacher from a good private school, she said that at parent-teacher meetings it was impossible to discuss problems with discipline or problems with homework – well-paid parents literally covered their ears with their hands and kept saying: “Don’t you understand? You teach badly! Furious? So he’s not interested.”
Nevertheless, the best private schools, predominantly Catholic and Evangelical, turn out top grade kids year after year. This makes it possible for their graduates to enter the best universities in Germany (the Abitur system works approximately like the Unified State Examination – the final exams at the school are entrance to the university).
In addition to standard comprehensive elementary schools, where classes last until lunchtime, there are free schools, Waldorf schools, and schools with a different bias.
The bias can be musical or sports, in which case the child passes entrance tests. In the future, a lot of time is devoted to ballet or football, and the school curriculum is mastered according to the principle of reasonable sufficiency.
There are also differences of opinion regarding free schools – as a rule, they adhere to the concept of “living and learning”, a creative approach, self-knowledge, for which it is important to create the right environment, where there is room for curiosity, trust, courage. In the lessons in such schools, you can freely walk around the classroom, children conduct experiments together, the lessons themselves can be mixed and consist of music and physics, chemistry and geography, language and mathematics. The goal is to give a three-dimensional idea of the world around and lay the right values. In practice, parents say that such schools often send children who are not able to study in regular schools due to attention deficit or health issues.
Waldorf schools are great for developing the creative side of your child, but if he decides to become a doctor by the age of fifteen, then the transition to the “regular” education system can cost him a lot of energy, and you – the means to hire tutors.
Programs in schools of different types, despite the fact that they are all recognized by the Senate, differ significantly.
However, uniformity is alien to the education system in Germany – at the same moment, children of the same age in nearby schools will study completely different topics. Teacher programs provide a framework within which the teacher has considerable freedom in the choice of topics and materials. This should be kept in mind by parents who suddenly realize that they want to transfer their child to another school.
Well, the last important difference is that schools in Germany prepare children for maximum independent study at the university, therefore, in gymnasiums, teachers are not particularly guided by textbooks, children often need to search for information on a topic in a library or on the Internet, make presentations and write essays. If you, mindful of your childhood, introduce the habit of doing homework with your child, you thereby deprive him of the opportunity to adapt to a system different from the Russian one.