Summary:
The high-school list for Salt Fork Community Unit District 512 contains one school, Salt Fork High School, serving grades 9–12 with 248 students. In 2025–2026, its graduation rate was 88%, compared with 90% statewide, and chronic absenteeism was 20%, compared with 24% statewide. The most important finding is that every reported, unsuppressed subject-and-grade proficiency result was below the state rate, by 12 to 26 percentage points.
Salt Fork is the only school in the list, so there is no local top or bottom school to compare. Among its reported results, ELA was closest to state performance: grade 10 PreACT proficiency was 42%, versus 54% statewide, a 12-point gap. The widest gaps included grade 11 ACT ELA, at 24% versus 50% statewide, and grade 10 PreACT science, at 23% versus 48%—gaps of 26 and 25 points. Mathematics also trailed: grade 10 was 17% versus 36% statewide, and grade 9 was 21% versus 42%.
Results changed in different directions across grades and subjects, while the average gap from the state widened slightly across seven like-for-like comparisons, from 19.7 to 20.4 points between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Grade 10 ELA improved from 35% to 42%, narrowing its state gap from 20 to 12 points; grade 11 science fell from 37% to 26%, widening its gap from 12 to 22 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking percentile also declined, from the 50th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 25th in 2024–2025 and 16th in 2025–2026. Context figures for Salt Fork High School include a 15.3-to-1 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 54% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year; these describe the school but do not establish what explains its results.
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