Best High Schools in Crete, IL

Crete’s high-school list has one school, Crete-Monee High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 1,480 students. Its latest results show proficiency averaging 30%, compared with 47% statewide. The clearest takeaway is that the school’s proficiency rate was below the state’s in all nine reported grade-and-subject results, by an average of 17 percentage points.

There is no local top-or-bottom school comparison because only one school is listed. Within the school’s results, ELA is the strongest subject relative to the state: across the reported grades, the school averaged 39% proficient versus 55% statewide, a 16-point gap. Science has the largest average shortfall, with 29% proficient versus 48% statewide, a 19-point gap. At the grade-and-test level, grade 9 ELA was the strongest result at 47% versus 62% statewide, while grade 9 mathematics was weakest at 20% versus 42%—a 22-point shortfall.

Overall results changed little year over year, but grade-level patterns differed: the average school-state gap stayed around 17 points. Grade 11 ACT mathematics improved by 8 points and its gap narrowed by 8 points; in contrast, grade 9 mathematics fell by 4 points as the state rose by 4, widening that gap by 8 points. Chronic absenteeism is also high: 38% at the school, compared with 24% statewide and 33% in Crete Monee CUSD 201U. SchoolDigger gives the school one star and ranks it 499th of 620 in its 2025–2026 data. The student-teacher ratio was 15.2 in 2024–2025; 57% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year.