Summary:
The high-school list for Arthur, Illinois, contains one school: Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond High School, serving grades 9–12 with 310 students and a 10.8:1 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025. Its reported low-income measure was 47% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. The school’s 2025–2026 graduation rate was 98%, compared with 90% statewide, and its clearest strength is ELA, where it exceeded state results in all three reported grade/test combinations.
There is no local top or bottom school to compare, but Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond stands out most consistently in ELA: proficiency was 60% on the grade 11 ACT, 63% on the grade 10 PreACT Secure, and 70% on the grade 9 PreACT Secure—about 10, 9, and 8 percentage points above state results, respectively. Math is more mixed: grade 11 ACT proficiency was 51%, 11 points above the state, while PreACT Secure results were 2 points below the state in grade 10 and 15 points below in grade 9. Science also varied by grade: the grade 10 result was 10 points above the state, but the grade 9 result was 13 points below.
Results changed unevenly over time: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, grade 10 PreACT ELA rose 11 percentage points, while grade 9 PreACT science fell 28 points; grade 9 PreACT math also declined 8 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking percentile rose from 68 in 2023–2024 to 76 in 2024–2025, then fell to 65 in 2025–2026. Graduation was notably higher than the state rate, while chronic absenteeism was slightly higher: 24.3% at the school versus 23.5% statewide, a 1-point difference. Because this list includes just one school, it cannot show how the school compares with other local high schools.
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