Original Research by School Decision on Evergreen Park High School
Evergreen Park High School is a public high school serving grades 9-12 in the densely residential suburb of Evergreen Park, immediately southwest of Chicago. The school enrolls roughly mid-sized student body, with substantial racial diversity: Black and Hispanic students together make up a majority of enrollment, while white students are the largest single group, followed by smaller populations of Asian, multiracial, and Native American students. Free-or-reduced-price-lunch data was not available, so a reader cannot assess the school's economic composition from this profile.
State assessment data for this school was not available. The school serves grades 9 through 12, and Illinois administers state testing at elementary and middle grades, not high school, so proficiency results are not applicable here. This means readers will not find statewide academic benchmarking on this page. A parent evaluating the school should contact the school or district directly to learn about transcript results, college placement rates, course rigor, and other direct measures of academic preparation.
The school sits within Evergreen Park CHSD 231, a district that has received the Illinois Property Tax Relief Grant repeatedly over recent years, directly lowering property tax bills for residents while the state replaces the lost revenue through other funding mechanisms. This is a concrete financial benefit to homeowners considering the area. The district has also substantially expanded athletic and physical-education facilities without raising the tax rate, purchasing and renovating a former fitness club and adding a new bowling alley at the high school sports complex, opening in fall 2025. These projects used existing capital funds rather than new bonds, so they expand what the school can offer without tapping new bonding capacity.
Evergreen Park itself is a compact, built-out bungalow and brick-flat suburb whose everyday life centers on the 95th Street retail spine running east-west, anchored by newer big-box retail at the redeveloped Evergreen Plaza and nearby Walmart, Sam's Club, Meijer, and Menards. The village is walkable along that arterial but auto-oriented otherwise, with quiet residential blocks and modest pedestrian street life away from the commercial corridors. Public transit includes Pace bus routes connecting to the CTA Red Line 95th terminal and Metra's 103rd Street station nearby. OSF HealthCare Little Company of Mary Medical Center is by far the largest employer. The housing market in the zip code is moderately priced relative to the state and nation, with homes and rents both accessible to middle-income households; the real estate environment shows modest supply with longer days on market compared to recent years. Growth in Evergreen Park is primarily redevelopment rather than new construction, with a focus on the 95th Street corridor and a paused school facility bond due to property tax concerns among voters.
Graduation rate data was not available, and we looked for chronic absenteeism and other outcome metrics that would position the school among Cook County high schools, but those were not reported. A parent should request that information directly from the school or district office. The school's website address was not provided in this data, so readers may need to search online for course catalogs, club offerings, athletic rosters, and other program details that would help round out a decision.
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