Downers Grove North High School

"The staff here is amazing!!! But I want to specifically mention two people that deserve individual recognition!! Dean Rebecca Talavera and my child’s counselor for the four years she was there Mr Kevin Leslie!!! They are awesome awesome people. Great school"

"Fantastic school!"

"So I am an alumni from this school. They did a great job at providing us with extra curriculars activities and great teachers that cared about their subjects. When it came to the way they handled students issues, they never seemed to care about the facts. For example when I went to school here I played for the football team and received a concussion that landed me in the hospital for a few days. A side effect from this concussion was crippling migraines that I would need to stay home with. The medicine needed would take me out for the count. I had gotten a doctor's not that stated I had an on going medical condition. The deans however felt differently and wrote me tickets for every day I was late or missed. These tickets totaled 1100 dollars. The deans told my single parent that they should quit their job to "get their problem son to school" even though my doctor had written said note excusing me for an on going condition. Or when the Dean told me if I couldn't get a death certificate for my grandma's funeral to take a picture with said dead grandmother. The lack of empathy amongst the deans was the area that killed my ability to enjoy going to highschool here. I loved the teachers, loved the events, love the sports, but did not enjoy the deans. Hopefully this has been fixed since I graduated but if not the administration should take a look into providing better empathy towards individual students needs. Not everyone is a problem child ;)"

"This is the best High School in Downers Grove it has good teachers and well behaved students."

"School has one or two teachers that actually care, most however are sub par. They go in, they read from a book, they leave. Also, if you are the child of a single parent family you are looked on as worthless, and bound to cause trouble. Living in this horrible excuse for a town, filled to the brim with know nothing conservatives is the worst decision one could make. Sending ones child here would be the second worst."