Little known facts about Driscoll just in the last few years:

ACADEMICS

• 17% of this year's graduating class have been named Illinois State Scholars (15 out of 89 seniors)
• Of the 15 Illinois State Scholars, 8 students are varsity athletes
• There are 55 students in the National Honors Society (juniors & seniors)
• Of the 55 NHS Students, 51 are athletes
• Our average ACT scores are 1 to 2 points higher than the public high schools in surrounding areas
• Our average ACT score is calculated using the scores of all our students, not just the college bound
• Our average ACT composite scores for the last 5 years:
  • 2004    22.0
  • 2005    22.7
  • 2006    21.2
  • 2007    22.0
  • 2008    21.7
• We admit students that other private high schools do not accept based on placement scores, yet, we are able to achieve with these students such a high level of academic success that they go on to college
• Special Education teacher on-staff (alumnus)
• College & Universities that our students have attended or received academic or athletic scholarships:
  • University of Chicago
  • Northwestern University
  • University of Notre Dame
  • University of Illinois-Urbana
  • University of Illinois-Chicago
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • University of Nevada-Las Vegas
  • Boston College
  • Rhode Island
  • Florida State University
  • Virginia Tech University
  • University of Southern California
  • Loyola University-Chicago
  • Loyola University-Los Angelos
  • DePaul University
  • Purdue University 
  • Elmhurst College
  • Lewis
  • St. Mary's University
  • Winona
  • Augustana
  • Benedictine
  • St. Ambrose 
  • All Illinois-state Universities
• On average, over 2 million dollars in academic scholarships are awarded to our graduating classes