University of Ill Lab School

The University of Ill Lab School area has one listed school, University of Illinois High School, serving grades 7–12 and enrolling 319 students. The most important finding is that in 2025–2026, the school was above the state in every reported subject and grade: school proficiency was at least 87.5%, compared with state results of at most 63.1%, and the school’s advantages ranged from 37 to 64 percentage points.

With no other listed schools, University of Illinois High School is the only school-level standout, rather than a leader over local peers. Its strongest average advantage was in mathematics: 53 percentage points above the state, compared with 48 points in science and 43 in ELA. The largest individual gap was 64 points in grade 10 mathematics; the smallest was 37 points in grade 8 ELA and grade 9 ELA. Other reported outcomes were also better than state figures: graduation was 95% versus 90%, while chronic absenteeism was 17% versus 24%—7 points lower at the school.

The all-grades IAR gaps widened slightly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: from 41 to 44 points in ELA and from 46 to 48 points in mathematics. Science trends varied by grade and test, with some school–state gaps narrowing and others widening. SchoolDigger ranked the school 2nd of 620 in 2025–2026 and awarded it five stars, after rankings of 1st of 697 in 2023–2024 and 2nd of 698 in 2024–2025. The reported student-teacher ratio was 79.7 in 2024–2025, a figure families may want to verify; no school low-income measure is reported.