Schools soar to new heights in report card Northside Prep, Edgebrook, Hinsdale area all come up big

Years back, many parents ran from Chicago's neighborhood schools.

But this year, the city produced the highest-scoring neighborhoodelementary school in the state -- Edgebrook on the Northwest Side,according to a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of School Report Card datareleased today.

In the suburbs, Community Consolidated District 181, headquarteredin upper-crust Hinsdale, placed all seven of its elementary schoolsamong the top 25 in Illinois. That's an improvement over last year,when they were in the top 50.

Among high schools, Chicago's Northside College Prep solidly ledthe state for the fourth year in a row. Payton College Prep inChicago zoomed up in rank -- …