Summary:
The city of Ashton, Illinois has one high school, Ashton-Franklin Center High School, which serves students in grades 9-12. The school has seen fluctuations in its statewide ranking, ranging from 147th out of 697 Illinois high schools in 2023-2024 to 302nd out of 699 in 2022-2023, with its current ranking for 2024-2025 at 213th out of 698. While the school has a relatively high 4-year graduation rate of 89.0% for 2024-2025, its dropout rate of 2.4% is lower than the state average.
Academically, Ashton-Franklin Center High School outperforms the Ashton-Franklin Center CUSD 275 district and state averages in English Language Arts proficiency across most grade levels, but its mathematics proficiency rates are more mixed, with 8th grade and overall performance lagging behind. The school's science proficiency for 8th grade is slightly below the state average, and its ACT and PreACT Secure scores show the school performing below state averages in English, math, and science.
Demographically, Ashton-Franklin Center High School has a relatively high percentage of free and reduced-price lunch recipients at 48.85% in 2023-2024, and a per-student spending of $15,846 for the same school year. The school's student-teacher ratio of 13.5 is slightly lower than the state average, and its chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4% for 2024-2025 is quite high, which may be impacting student learning and academic outcomes.
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