U.S. News & World Report, a national news magazine that conducts annual rankings of high schools, has ranked Oak Park and River Forest High School as the 34th best public high school in the state of Illinois.OPRF jumped five spots this year in the U.S. News rankings. It was ranked 39th last year. U.S. News ranked OPRF as the 907th best public high school in the nation.This year the first five spots in the state rankings were, as usual, taken by selective-enrollment Chicago Public High Schools. Payton College Prep was ranked as the top public high school in the state. Eleven of the schools ranked higher than OPRF are selective enrollment, otherwise known as magnet, high schools.