Summary:
The Westville CUSD 2 school district in Illinois contains a single high school, Westville High School, which serves students in grades 9-12. The data analysis reveals that Westville High School is facing significant challenges in terms of academic performance, student engagement, and socioeconomic factors, despite the school's relatively high per-student spending.
Westville High School's statewide ranking has declined over the past three years, from 503 out of 699 Illinois high schools in 2021-2022 to 382 out of 697 in 2023-2024. The school's performance rating by SchoolDigger has also declined, from 1 star out of 5 in 2021-2022 to 2 stars out of 5 in 2023-2024. The school's four-year graduation rate for 2023-2024 is 85.9%, which is below the state average, and its dropout rate for 2023-2024 is 5.6%, which is higher than the state average. Additionally, the school's chronic absenteeism rate for 2023-2024 is 24.9%, significantly higher than the state average.
Academically, Westville High School's proficiency rates on the SAT/Mathematics and SAT/English Language Arts assessments for 11th-grade students were 10.9% and 25%, respectively, both of which are well below the state averages of 26.1% and 31.1%. The school's proficiency rate on the ISA/Science assessment for all grades in 2023-2024 was 32.2%, also significantly lower than the state average of 53.2%. These findings suggest that the school is struggling to keep up with the academic standards and performance of other high schools in Illinois, despite its higher-than-average per-student spending.
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