Summary:
The city of Armstrong, Illinois has only one high school, Armstrong High School, which serves students in grades 9-12. The school has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger, ranking 265 out of 698 Illinois high schools in the 2024-2025 school year. Armstrong High School's performance is mixed, with strengths in English Language Arts and Science but challenges in Mathematics.
Armstrong High School has a 4-year graduation rate of 89.0%, slightly above the state average, and a relatively low dropout rate of 2.4%. However, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4% is higher than the state average. In terms of academic achievement, the school's proficiency rates in ACT/English Language Arts (52.4%), ACT/Science (47.6%), and PreACT Secure/English Language Arts for 9th grade (63.6%) are all above the state averages. But the school's proficiency rates in ACT/Mathematics (23.8%), PreACT Secure/Mathematics for 10th grade (27.6%), and SAT/Mathematics for 11th grade (6.9%) are significantly lower than the state averages.
The school has a relatively high proportion of students from low-income families, with a free and reduced-price lunch rate of 35.96% in the 2023-2024 school year. However, the school's per-student spending for the 2023-2024 school year was $41,630, significantly higher than the state average, and the school had a low student-teacher ratio of 8.1. These resources could be leveraged to address the school's areas of academic weakness and support the needs of its student population.
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