Summary:
Midland CUSD 7 is a small school district in Illinois that contains a single high school, Midland High School. The school serves grades 9-12 and has a relatively small student population of 195 students. While the school's performance has fluctuated in recent years, it faces some challenges in maintaining consistent academic achievement and addressing issues like chronic absenteeism.
Midland High School has a statewide ranking that has ranged from 245 out of 697 Illinois high schools in 2023-2024 to 382 out of 699 in 2022-2023. Its performance rating by SchoolDigger has also varied, with 3 out of 5 stars in 2023-2024 and 2024-2025, and 2 out of 5 stars in 2022-2023. The school's four-year graduation rate for 2024-2025 is 89.0%, slightly below the state average, and its dropout rate for the same year is 2.4%, slightly higher than the state average. Additionally, the school's chronic absenteeism rate for 2024-2025 is 25.4%, significantly higher than the state average.
Academically, Midland High School has proficiency rates on ACT/SAT assessments that are below the state averages in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science. The school's proficiency rates on the PreACT Secure assessments for 9th and 10th graders were mixed, with some subjects above and some below the state averages. The school's higher-than-average per-student spending of $13,329 for the 2023-2024 school year suggests that the Midland CUSD 7 district is allocating resources to address the needs of its relatively high proportion of economically disadvantaged students, as indicated by the school's free and reduced-price lunch rate of 53.33%.
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