Summary:
Mercer County School District 404 in Illinois has only one high school, Mercer County High School, which serves grades 9-12. The school's performance has been mixed, with a statewide ranking that has fluctuated between 231 and 302 out of 697-699 Illinois high schools over the past three school years, and a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Mercer County High School's four-year graduation rate for the 2023-2024 school year is 80.0%, which is below the state average, and its dropout rate is 4.6%, which is higher than the state average. The school's proficiency rates in SAT Mathematics (17.5%) and SAT English Language Arts (26.8%) are lower than the state averages, but its proficiency rate in ISA Science (63.9%) is higher than the state average. The school's chronic absenteeism rate of 33.0% is significantly higher than the state average.
Despite the Mercer County School District 404 having a higher per-student spending of $14,488 for the 2022-2023 school year, which is above the state average, the school's academic outcomes suggest that the resources may not be effectively utilized or allocated to address the specific needs of the student population, which includes a significant proportion of students from low-income families with a free and reduced-price lunch rate of 39.6%.
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