Summary:
Ashton has one listed public high school, Ashton-Franklin Center High School, serving grades 7–12 and enrolling 216 students; with only one school listed, there is no local school-to-school comparison. Its clearest strength is English language arts: in 2025–2026, 68% of students were proficient, 12 percentage points above Illinois. Math was weaker, at 36%, about 3 points below the state. The most important finding is that strong overall ELA results sit alongside below-state math results.
The school’s strongest results were in eighth grade, while seventh-grade results were below state levels in both tested subjects. Eighth-grade ELA proficiency was 86%, 23 points above the state, compared with 49% in seventh grade, 9 points below. Eighth-grade science was also strong: 72% proficient, 20 points above the state. These strengths do not extend to every outcome: the graduation rate was 79%, 11 points below Illinois, while chronic absenteeism was 16%, 7 points lower than the state rate.
Results have shifted over time: the ELA advantage narrowed from 14 points in 2024–2025 to 12 points in 2025–2026, while math moved from 5 points above the state to 3 points below. SchoolDigger’s school ranking also declined, from the 79th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 51st percentile in 2025–2026, a 28-point drop. Context figures include a 12.7 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 52% free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these describe the school, not what explains its results.
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