One Model Standards Based High School

During the spring of 2022, a team of Lockwood teachers and administrators visited an award-winning high school in Lincolnshire, Illinois called Stevenson High School. Stevenson has been implementing standards based grading and reporting for nearly 10 years. 

The following statistics represent Stevenson High School:

• Enrollment: 4,337

• Percent Attending College: 97%

• Percent Scoring 3 or Higher on AP Exams: 87.6%

• Number of AP Courses: 32 (plus 13 honors-level courses not designated as Advanced Placement)

• 39 students from Stevenson named Semifinalists in the prestigious National Merit Scholarship Program. More than 16,000 students have achieved the distinction of National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists, representing less than 1 percent of high school seniors in the United States.

• Four time Blue Ribbon Award winner for Excellence in Education from the U.S. Department of Education

• Number of Certified Staff: 336

• Number of Counselors: 19 (includes two full-time postsecondary counselors)

Their state report card, inclusive of SAT scores, can be viewed here.

Review Grading at Stevenson for more information about their practices.