NNHS Counselor Connection

• 🔆 Welcome Back! (All)
• 🪧 Counselor Updates (All)
• 🌙 Counselor Evening Programs (All)
• ✅ Upcoming Opportunities
• 📖 Counseling Curriculum (9th, 11th, & 12th)
• 💲 FAFSA Graduation Requirement (12th)
• 🎓 College Rep Visits to NNHS (10th - 12th)
• 🧭 NCompass
• 💻 SchooLinks Parent/Guardian Accounts

Due to staffing changes within the Student Services Department, your student's assigned counselor may have changed from last school year. For the most up-to-date list of School Counselors and their alpha team assignments, check out our Student Services Staff page.

If students would like to schedule an appointment with their School Counselor, or the College & Career Counselor, they can do so using our Calendly links.

For the 2026-27 School Year, the Counseling Department will be offering joint evening programs with Naperville Central Counselors, tailored for students & families. We invite you to view our calendar of events and save the dates to join us! We will send additional reminders about upcoming events via email, Apptegy, and in each monthly newsletter.

For the month of September, we invite our Sophomore, Junior & Senior families to join us for Parent University!

Each month we will highlight job or volunteer opportunities shared with Student Services. There are also listed in the SchooLinks Opportunity Board that all students can access:

Sept. 19: Saddlefest at Ranch View Elementary (volunteer opportunity)

Nov. 3: Student Election Night Judge (temporary work opportunity)

On August 14th, Freshmen participated in North's Freshmen Connect Day. Students were introduced to their School Counselor & participated in a volunteer activity to encourage future Huskies are their feeder schools.

Prior to Open House on August 20th, Freshmen families were invited to our Freshmen Parent Presentation, introducing families to our Student Services teams, and the resources we provide. If you missed this event, we have the slides & handout posted on the Student Services website.

During the week of September 7th, Juniors will participate in our Counseling Curriculum Lesson on Postsecondary Planning. After all Juniors have received this lesson, we will share out the slides & handouts with Junior families.

During the week of August 24th, Seniors participated in our Senior Week presentations. This introduced students to our Senior Week FlowDoc, our SchooLinks College Tracking Guide, and our Common App Help Guide, among many other timely resources for this school year.

During the week of August 31st, Counselors will offer drop-in hours during all lunch periods on Wednesday, September 2nd in The Loft (2nd floor of the Learning Commons). School Counselors, as well as the College & Career Counselor, will be available to answer Seniors' questions.

During the week of September 21st, Seniors will receive a lesson in their Homeroom focused on financial aid & affordability. After all Seniors have received this lesson, we will share out the slides & resources with Senior families.

Public Act 101-180 requires all public high school students in the state of Illinois to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), or, as eligible, the Alternative Application for Illinois Financial Aid, as a prerequisite to receiving a high school diploma. A waiver provision allows a parent, guardian, or the student (if 18 years of age) to opt out for any reason. The 2027-28 FAFSA (for students beginning college in the Fall of 2027) will be available to be filled out beginning October 1, 2026.

Sophomores, Juniors & Seniors are welcome to attend college visits during the school day in The PARC beginning September 1st. Each year, we typically host 160+ college representatives. To attend a college visit, students must sign up in SchooLinks. Instructions can be found here. If students will be missing a class, they will need to get approval form their teacher and have a signed college visit from that teacher allowing them to attend the visit.

• To view a calendar of visits occurring in the next week, check out our College Visits Calendar.
• To view a list of all visits occurring throughout 1st semester, check out our College Visits List.

Why should your student attend a college visit?

• To learn more about a potential college of interest.
• To meet the admissions rep from the college.
  BONUS: This is typically the person who will be reading your application when you apply!

• To show demonstrated interest in applying/attending a college. Some colleges track this interest.
• To get questions answered about a college that you can't learn online.

NCompass is Naperville 203's Postsecondary Planning Guide. We encourage you to utilize this tool to research and explore postsecondary options. We highly recommend checking out the checklists by grade level.

SchooLinks is Naperville 203's college & career planning platform. Students began using this platform in junior high and continue to use it in high school.

Parents and guardians can create a SchooLinks Guardian account to take advantage of all of the wonderful tools that SchooLinks has to offer. Guardians can view their child's progress on SchooLinks, see assessment results, view favorited careers and colleges, and much more. We encourage all guardians to have an account. To create a SchooLinks Guardian account, please follow the directions in this document.