Academics
In 2005, Niles North High School had an average composite ACT score of 21.9, and graduated 91.9% of its senior class. The average class size is 16.1. Niles North has not made Adequate Yearly Progress on the Prairie State Achievement Examination(PSAE), a state test part of the No Child Left Behind Act. A campaign, "Head North" has been started near the end of 2006 that is intended to improve the school's ACT score before the PSAE testing along with other resource such as test-taking workshops to assisting sophomores who have struggled on the pre-ACT examination called the PLAN test.
Niles North High School currently enrolls 2,200 student a year, which is 400 students less than its sister-school Niles West High School.
The 2010–2011 school year began on August 24, 2010, and will end on June 9, 2011, if no emergency days are used.
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