Beecher City CUSD 20

The two schools in Beecher City CUSD 20 serve 361 students across PK–12: Beecher City Grade School serves PK–5, and Beecher City Junior-Senior High School serves grades 6–12. As a two-school group, their 2025–2026 average was 54% in IAR ELA and 39% in math, compared with state results of 56% and 40%. The clearest overall distinction is that the grade school led the high school by 11 points in ELA and 21 points in math: 60% versus 49% in ELA, and 49% versus 28% in math.

By all-grades IAR, the grade school stands out, while the high school has the lower results—but its averages hide notable strengths. The high school’s 11th-grade ACT results were 63% in ELA, 74% in math, and 63% in science, exceeding state results by 13, 34, and 15 points. Its 8th-grade IAR results were also above state levels in ELA, math, and science by 11, 18, and 13 points. Results are less strong in some earlier grades: 7th-grade IAR ELA was 21 points below the state, while 9th- and 10th-grade PreACT ELA were 12 and 13 points below.

Recent all-grades ELA results rose at both schools, by about 4 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026; math fell by 1 point at the grade school and rose by 2 at the high school. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 rankings put the grade school at the 67th percentile and the high school at the 66th; the grade school rebounded from the 62nd percentile the prior year, while the high school fell from the 84th. As context, in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 50% at the grade school and 46% at the high school; student-teacher ratios were 13.1 and 10.0. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 8% and 15%, respectively. These measures offer context, not an explanation for the schools’ different results.