Summary:
Flanagan-Cornell District 74 has one high school, Flanagan-Cornell High School, serving grades 9–12 with 106 students. Its results are mixed: the school was above Illinois in all three reported grade 11 ACT subjects in 2024–2025, but its reported grade 9 and 10 ELA results fell below state results the following year. The most important concern is that grade 9 and 10 ELA proficiency dropped sharply year to year, while state results changed little.
There is no meaningful top or bottom school in this area because Flanagan-Cornell is the only school listed. Compared with Illinois, its 2024–2025 grade 11 ACT results were higher by 2 points in ELA, 7 in math and 12 in science. But its PreACT results were not uniformly strong: grade 10 science was 12 points below state, while grade 10 ELA was 15 points above. In 2025–2026, grade 11 ACT science remained 2 points above state; ACT ELA was essentially even, at 50.0% compared with 49.9%. Graduation was 87% versus 90% statewide, while chronic absenteeism was lower at 16% versus 24%.
The biggest year-to-year change was in younger students’ ELA results. Grade 10 PreACT ELA fell from 71% to 48%, while the state moved from 55% to 54%; grade 9 fell from 68% to 44%, compared with a state change from 62% to 62%. SchoolDigger’s ranking also reversed direction: it rose from the 37th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 75th in 2024–2025, then fell to the 45th percentile and two stars in 2025–2026. The school’s 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 8.4 to 1, and 42% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. These figures offer context, not an explanation for results.
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