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Niles West High School | |
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Address | |
5701 Oakton St , 60077 United States | |
Coordinates | 42°01′28″N 87°46′20″W / 42.0244°N 87.7723°W |
Information | |
School type | public, comprehensive secondary |
Opened | 1958 |
School district | Niles Township High School District 219 |
NCES District ID | 1728530[1] |
Superintendent | Thomas Moore[2] |
NCES School ID | 172853002988[1] |
Principal | Jeremy Christian[3] |
Teaching staff | 184.25 (FTE)[1] |
Grades | 9-12[1] |
Gender | coed[1] |
Enrollment | 2,609 (2022–23)[4] |
Student to teacher ratio | 14.16[1] |
Campus type | City: small[1] |
Color(s) | red white[5] |
Athletics conference | Central Suburban League[5] |
Team name | Wolves[5] |
Rival | Niles North High School |
Newspaper | Niles West News |
Yearbook | Spectrum |
Website | http://www.niles-hs.k12.il.us/west/ |
Niles West High School (NWHS), officially Niles Township High School West, is a public four-year high school located in Skokie, Illinois, a north suburb of Chicago, in the United States. NWHS is part of the Niles Township Community High School District 219, which also includes Niles North High School. The name of the school teams originally was the Indians, which later was changed to the Wolves, in 2001. The feeder middle-schools for NWHS are Lincoln Junior High School (Skokie), Fairview South School (Skokie), Lincoln Hall Middle School (Lincolnwood), Culver Middle School (Niles), and Park View School (Morton Grove). Niles West High School also matriculates many students from MCC Academy, Morton Grove, Illinois.