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Best Public Schools in Red Bud, IL

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Schools

978

Students

Districts

Top rankedRed Bud High School197^th of 620 Illinois high schools

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Biggest riser

Red Bud High School up 5 spots statewide this year

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Smallest classes

Red Bud Elementary School 13.3 students per teacher

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Summary:

Red Bud, Illinois, has two schools serving PK–8 and grades 9–12: Red Bud Elementary School enrolls 582 students and Red Bud High School enrolls 396; both are part of Red Bud CUSD 132. Together, they serve 978 students, but their results show different strengths: the high school stands out in completion and several high-school subjects, while elementary results are uneven and mathematics is the clearest concern.

The high school has the strongest completion result: its 2025–2026 graduation rate was 100%, compared with 90% statewide, a 10-point advantage. It also exceeded state rates in all three reported science assessments and in grade 11 ACT mathematics, where it led by 10 points. Elementary results are more mixed: chronic absenteeism was just 8%, versus 24% statewide, but all-grades mathematics proficiency was 34%, 6 points below the state; its all-grades ELA rate was 55%, 1 point below. Grade-level results vary sharply: elementary grade 6 ELA was 64%, 5 points above the state, while grade 7 ELA was 47%, 10 points below. In mathematics, grade 3 was 55%, 6 points above the state, while grade 6 was 25%, 11 points below.

Recent patterns also differ. Elementary all-grades ELA moved from 8 points above the state in 2024–2025 to 1 point below in 2025–2026, a 10-point deterioration in its relative position; its mathematics gap widened from 3 points below to 6 points below. SchoolDigger’s elementary percentile ranking fell from 68 to 37 over those years, while the high school’s ranking was broadly steady, moving from 67 to 68. At the high school, grade 11 ACT gaps improved in all three subjects: mathematics rose from 4 to 10 points above the state, and science from 3 to 5 points above. The schools’ 2024–2025 student-teacher ratios were similar—13.3 and 13.6—and their free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 49% at the elementary school and 32% at the high school. Because the schools serve different grades and take different assessments, their test scores are not direct school-to-school comparisons.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				PreACT Secure English Language Arts (2026)		PreACT Secure Mathematics (2026)		PreACT Secure Science (2026)		ACT English Language Arts (2026)	ACT Mathematics (2026)	ACT Science (2026)	ISA Science (2026)		IAR English Language Arts (2026)							IAR Mathematics (2026)							Vaccination (2025-26)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2026)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	PreACT Secure English Language Arts 9th Grade	PreACT Secure English Language Arts 10th Grade	PreACT Secure Mathematics 9th Grade	PreACT Secure Mathematics 10th Grade	PreACT Secure Science 9th Grade	PreACT Secure Science 10th Grade	ACT English Language Arts 11th Grade	ACT Mathematics 11th Grade	ACT Science 11th Grade	ISA Science 5th Grade	ISA Science 8th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 3rd Grade	IAR English Language Arts 4th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 5th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 6th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 7th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 8th Grade	IAR English Language Arts All Grades	IAR Mathematics 3rd Grade	IAR Mathematics 4th Grade	IAR Mathematics 5th Grade	IAR Mathematics 6th Grade	IAR Mathematics 7th Grade	IAR Mathematics 8th Grade	IAR Mathematics All Grades	Vaccination: Measles protection (all grades)	Vaccination: Exemption rate	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
CCSI Alternative School	Public	9-12	6137 Beck Rd	Red Bud	62278	Monroe County	Monroe/Randolph ROE	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(618) 473-2222	0	0	.0	—	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()								(n/a)
Monroe/Randolph Red Brick School	Public	6-12	134 N Main St	Red Bud	62278	Randolph County	Monroe/Randolph ROE	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(618) 473-8945	0	2	.0	—	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()								(n/a)
Career Center of Southern Illinois	Public	11-12	6137 Beck Rd	Red Bud	62278	Monroe County	Monroe/Randolph ROE	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(618) 437-2222	0	0	.0	—	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()								(n/a)
ROE 45 Fresh Start ALOP	Public	6-8	134 N Main St	Red Bud	62278	Randolph County	Monroe/Randolph ROE	No	(n/a)	(n/a)	(n/a)	(618) 680-0154	0			—	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()								(n/a)
Red Bud Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-8	200 W Field Dr	Red Bud	62278	Randolph County	Red Bud CUSD 132	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(618) 282-3858	582	44	13.3	49.0%	531 (91.2%)	1 (0.2%)	20 (3.4%)	5 (0.9%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	24 (4.1%)	35.2	1094^th of 1737 public elementary schools	37.0%		55.9	888^th of 2056 public elementary schools	56.8%	206										33.9	55.4	50.0	56.4	47.5	64.0	47.2	62.5	55.1	55.4	34.5	25.4	25.3	32.1	32.1	33.6	98.6%		$14,510	$295	$14,216
Red Bud High School	Public	9-12	815 Locust St	Red Bud	62278	Randolph County	Red Bud CUSD 132	No	(n/a)	No	No	(618) 282-3826	396	29	13.6	31.8%	373 (94.2%)	4 (1.0%)	12 (3.0%)	2 (0.5%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	5 (1.3%)	62.4	197^th of 620 public high schools	68.2%		66.2	202^nd of 698 public high schools	71.1%	5	67.4	56.0	48.4	33.3	51.6	48.6	46.9	50.0	53.1																	99.2%		$17,202	$143	$17,059

Cities Near Red Bud

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Evansville	6.53 mi	1	626^th
Prairie Du Rocher	9.28 mi	1	127^th
New Athens	11.38 mi	3	148^th
Waterloo	12.98 mi	5	86^th
Marissa	13.27 mi	2	491^st

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education.

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