Summary:
Maroa, Illinois, has two schools in Maroa Forsyth CUSD 2 serving grades 6–12: Maroa-Forsyth Senior High School enrolls 348 students, and Maroa-Forsyth Middle School enrolls 271, for 619 students altogether. Their assessments and tested grades differ, so the schools cannot be ranked against each other by test scores. The strongest overall takeaway is that results are generally ahead of state levels, but performance varies notably by grade and subject.
Maroa-Forsyth Middle School stands out most in ELA: its 2025–2026 all-grades result was 82% proficient, 26 points above the state; its math result was 50%, 10 points above. At the high school, all three 10th-grade PreACT and 11th-grade ACT subjects were above state results, with advantages of 11 to 24 points. The clearest weaker spot was 9th-grade PreACT math, 40% proficient versus 42% statewide; 9th-grade science matched the state, and ELA was essentially even. Eighth-grade science at the middle school was also a strength, at 62% versus 52% statewide.
Results changed in different directions: high-school 9th-grade PreACT proficiency fell from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 by 16 points in ELA, 6 in math, and 14 in science, while 11th-grade ACT math rose 21 points and science rose 18. Middle-school all-grades IAR results increased 7 points in both ELA and math, and eighth-grade science rose 19 points. SchoolDigger gives both schools four stars, ranking the high school 115th of 620 Illinois high schools and the middle school 254th of 1,126 middle schools. For context, in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 26% at the high school and 31% at the middle school; student-teacher ratios were 15.7 and 18.2, respectively. These figures describe different school settings, not an explanation for their results.
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