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==Education== ===Public schools=== Primary school districts include: * [[Skokie School District 68]] * [[Skokie/Morton Grove School District 69]] * [[Fairview South School District 72]] * [[East Prairie School District 73]] * [[Skokie School District 73.5]] [[Niles Township High School District 219]] operates public high schools. A portion of the city is served by the [[Evanston/Skokie School District 65]] and [[Evanston Township High School]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eths.k12.il.us//cms/lib/IL01903927/Centricity/Domain/220/ETHS%20School%20Profile%202018-19.pdf|title=EVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL 2018-19 School Profile|publisher=Evanston Township High School|access-date=July 17, 2019}}</ref> ====High schools==== [[File:Niles North High School (2023).jpg|thumb|[[Niles North High School]] in Skokie]] * [[Niles North High School|Niles North]] of District 219 * [[Niles West High School|Niles West]] of District 219 * Niles Township District 219, known for its fine arts program, was awarded the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts Top program for fine arts education in the United States on April 27, 2007. * Niles East High School closed in 1980 after community efforts to save the school failed. ====Junior high schools==== * Oliver McCracken Middle School (formerly Oakview Junior High) of District 73.5 * East Prairie School (Pre-K through 8th) of District 73 * Fairview South School of District 72 * Lincoln Junior High of District 69 * Old Orchard Junior High of District 68 * Chute Middle School in Evanston serves a small portion of Skokie residents of Evanston/Skokie District 65 ====Elementary schools==== See the same map as middle schools. * Jane Stenson School, (K through 5th) of District 68 * Devonshire School, (K through 5th) of District 68 * Highland School, (K through 5th) of District 68 * Madison School, (pre-K through 2nd) of District 69 * Edison School, (3rd through 5th) of District 69 * Fairview North formerly of District 72 * Fairview South School, (K through 8th) of District 72 * Elizabeth Meyer School, (pre-K and K) of District 73.5 * John Middleton School, (1st through 5th) of District 73.5 * East Prairie School, (Pre-K through 8th) of District 73 * Walker Elementary School, (K through 5th) of Skokie/Evanston District 65 * Dr. Bessie Rhodes Magnet School, (K through 8th) of Skokie/Evanston District 65, formerly Timber Ridge Magnet School (may be attended by Skokie students in District 65) ===Religious day schools=== Jewish: * Arie Crown Hebrew Day School (pre-K through 8th), boys and girls * Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School (pre-K through 8th), separate boys and girls programs * Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School (pre-K through 8th), boys and girls * [[Ida Crown Jewish Academy]] (9th through 12th), boys and girls * [[Fasman Yeshiva High School]] (9th through 12th), boys only * Solomon Schechter Day School Ginsburg Early Childhood Center.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sadin|first=Steve|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/northbrook/ct-nbs-solomon-schecter-new-head-tl-0125-story.html|title=Solomon Schechter welcomes new head of school|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=January 16, 2018|accessdate=January 24, 2022}}</ref> From 1978 to 2012 the day school had a campus in Skokie. After 2012 day students were moved to [[Northbrook, Illinois|Northbrook]], and the building is now MCC Academy's elementary school. The closure of the Skokie facility occurred as fewer Jewish people lived in Skokie.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Schmich|first=Mary|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/mary-schmich/ct-schmich-skokie-school-met-0924-20140924-column.html|title=Important lesson at ex-Jewish school, now Muslim|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=September 24, 2014|accessdate=January 24, 2022}}</ref> Muslim: * [[MCC Academy]] (Pre-K through elementary are in Skokie, with secondary students in [[Morton Grove, Illinois|Morton Grove]])<ref name=About>{{cite web|url=https://www.mccacademy.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=341779&type=d|title=Mission & Vision|publisher=[[MCC Academy]]|accessdate=January 24, 2022}}</ref> Roman Catholic: * St. Joan of Arc School (K-8), of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago]] ===Post-secondary education=== * [[Oakton College]] (Ray Hartstein Campus) This is the site of the old Niles East High School. The original structure, built in the 1930s, was demolished in the 1990s. * [[Hebrew Theological College]], a private university. It was chartered in 1922 as one of the first Modern Orthodox Jewish institutions of higher education in America. * [[National-Louis University]] has a campus near the Skokie Courthouse.
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