Summary:
The city of Fulton, Illinois is home to a single high school, Fulton High School, which serves students in grades 9-12. While the school maintains a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger, its statewide ranking has declined from 174th out of 699 Illinois high schools in 2022-2023 to 298th out of 698 in 2024-2025, suggesting potential performance challenges.
Fulton High School's graduation rate of 89.0% for the 2024-2025 school year is slightly below the state average of 90.5%, while its dropout rate of 2.4% is lower than the state average of 3.6%. However, the school's academic performance shows room for improvement, particularly in mathematics, where 11th-grade students scored 33.3% proficient or better, compared to the state average of 39.3%. The school's chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4% in 2024-2025 is also higher than the state average of 19.3%, indicating attendance issues that may be contributing to the lower academic outcomes.
Despite these challenges, Fulton High School is allocating resources to support its students, with a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 12.2 to 1 in 2023-2024, compared to the state average of 15.1 to 1. Additionally, 39.27% of the school's students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2023-2024, suggesting that the school serves a population facing economic challenges, which may impact academic performance and other outcomes. Addressing the school's attendance issues and uneven academic achievement, particularly in mathematics, could be key focus areas for improvement.
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