UPDATED 2022

Hubbard Woods School in Winnetka IL

Providing a good education is the goal of all parents with school-age children.  My experience with buyers, particularly out-of-town buyers, is that any house they purchase must be in an excellent school district. Here on the North Shore, including Winnetka, Wilmette, Kenilworth, and Glencoe, all elementary, middle and junior high schools feed into New Trier High School, one of the top high schools in Illinois.  All these feeder schools are rigorous in maintaining standards that are conducive to success at New Trier High School.

Hubbard Woods has two schools that serve elementary grades - the public school Hubbard Woods School, (which is a kindergarten through fourth grade) and the private Catholic school Sacred Heart.  A historical record of Hubbard Woods School can be found at Hubbard Woods School History. According to GreatSchools, Hubbard Woods School is among the few Illinois public elementary schools to receive a distinguished (their words) GreatSchools rating of 9 out of 10. 

The school has approximately 292 students and averages 13.2 students for every full-time teacher. Demographics for the school can be found at Hubbard Woods Demographics. 

How many schools start out their mornings with a full television broadcast, written, read, and produced by Hubbard Woods School fourth-graders in a basement studio!  Innovation is hard at work at studio WGST 6 (World's Greatest School Television) where students rehearse first then report stories, announce student birthdays, make weather predictions, discuss a "word of the day," and do special reports on topics like the third grade Medieval Fair or the kindergarten play.

Several years ago, the school built an outdoor vegetable garden that reaches full growth in the middle of summer. Great time to be going to summer school!

There had been much upheaval and angst among parents because of overcrowding conditions at Crow Island School (the 3rd Winnetka elementary school is Greeley.)  In 2018-2020, the school board determined that some school boundaries must be altered to more evenly distribute children going to grades K-4. To read more about this, please see The Winnetka Public Schools Educational Master Facility Plan 

If you are relocating or just moving to the North Shore area and are considering the Hubbard Woods area of Winnetka, be assured that the schools will meet rigorous standards and place higher on standardized tests than most schools nationally and in the state of Illinois.

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