Summary:
The city of Summit, Illinois has only one high school, Argo Community High School, which serves grades 9-12 and is part of the Argo CHSD 217 district. While the school has a relatively large student enrollment of 1,841, its academic performance has been declining in recent years, with its statewide ranking dropping from 331 out of 698 Illinois high schools in 2024-2025 to 442 out of 699 in 2022-2023.
Argo Community High School's 4-year graduation rate of 89.0% is slightly below the state average, and its dropout rate of 2.4% is slightly higher. The school also struggles with a high chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4%, which is significantly higher than the state average. Academically, the school's proficiency rates in ACT/English Language Arts (44%), ACT/Mathematics (35.4%), and ACT/Science (37.4%) are all lower than the state averages, indicating that students are performing below their peers across the state.
Despite the school's academic challenges, it has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 14.8, and its per-student spending of $24,211 is higher than the state average. However, these additional resources do not seem to be translating into better academic outcomes, suggesting that the school may need to implement more targeted interventions to address the root causes of its performance issues, which may be related to the high percentage of students (68.33%) receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating significant economic disadvantages within the student population.
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