Summary:
The Patoka CUSD 100 school district in Illinois has only one high school, Patoka Senior High School, which serves students in grades 9-12. The data indicates that this school is facing significant challenges in terms of academic performance, student engagement, and overall school quality compared to other high schools in Illinois.
Patoka Senior High School has seen a steady decline in its statewide ranking over the past three years, dropping from 464 out of 697 Illinois high schools in 2023-2024 to 591 out of 699 in 2021-2022. The school's overall SchoolDigger rating is 2 out of 5 stars, which is below the state average. While the school's four-year graduation rate is slightly above the state average at 92.3%, its dropout rate of 4.9% is higher than the state average. Additionally, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 34.7% is significantly higher than the state average.
Academically, Patoka Senior High School struggles, with proficiency rates on the SAT that are well below the state averages in both Mathematics (9.1% vs. 26.1%) and English Language Arts (18.2% vs. 31.1%). The school's proficiency rate on the 2022-2023 ISA Science assessment was also lower than the state average at 30.4% compared to 52.2%. Despite the school's relatively small student population and higher per-student spending, these academic challenges suggest that factors beyond just funding and size may be contributing to the school's performance issues.
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