Summary:
Cobden SUD 17 has one middle school, Cobden Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 with 96 students. With no other middle schools in the area to compare, the clearest picture comes from the school’s results against Illinois and its own past performance. In 2025–2026, its all-grades English language arts result was 67%, 11 percentage points above the state, while mathematics was 35%, 5 points below; the most important finding is that strong ELA results contrast with math that remains below the state overall.
There is no local top or bottom school because Cobden Junior High School is the only one listed, but its eighth-grade results stood out against state results in all three subjects. Eighth-grade ELA was 82% compared with 63% statewide, mathematics was 46% versus 35%, and science was 61% versus 52%—advantages of 19, 11, and 9 percentage points, respectively. The all-grades math result masks differences by grade: eighth-grade math was above the state, while seventh-grade math was 32% compared with 40% statewide.
Results improved across the two years reported, especially in eighth-grade science: it rose from 19% in 2024–2025 to 61% in 2025–2026, moving from 27 points below the state to 9 points above. All-grades ELA rose from 58% to 67%, and its state advantage widened from 5 to 11 points; math rose from 28% to 35%, narrowing its gap below the state from 10 to 5 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking was 52 in 2023–2024, 51 in 2024–2025, and 61 in 2025–2026. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 11.6 in 2024–2025 and 93.8% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Chronic absenteeism was 13% in 2025–2026, compared with 24% statewide. Because enrollment is 96, year-to-year results may be sensitive to the number of students tested.
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