Summary:
The 62422 zip code is home to a single public high school, Cowden-Herrick Junior/Senior High School, which serves grades 6-12 and has a total enrollment of 165 students. The school is part of the Cowden-Herrick CUSD 3A district, which is ranked 213 out of 813 districts in Illinois and has a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Cowden-Herrick Junior/Senior High School has seen fluctuating performance in recent years, with its statewide ranking ranging from 169 out of 697 Illinois high schools in 2023-2024 (4-star rating) to 592 out of 699 in 2022-2023 (1-star rating) and 485 out of 699 in 2021-2022 (2-star rating). The school has a strong 95.5% four-year graduation rate, but also a relatively high 4.3% dropout rate. Chronic absenteeism is a concern, with 33.9% of students considered chronically absent. Academically, the school outperforms the state average in some areas, such as SAT Math proficiency, but underperforms in others, like SAT ELA proficiency.
Despite the school's socioeconomic challenges, with 68.48% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, the school appears to be allocating resources effectively, with a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 8.6 and above-average spending per student of $12,067. These factors suggest that the school and district may need to focus on targeted interventions and resource allocation to address the issues of fluctuating performance, mixed academic results, and high chronic absenteeism in order to support student success.
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