Summary:
Durand CUSD 322 has one high school, Durand High School, serving grades 9–12 in Durand. It enrolls 170 students, and its 2025–26 graduation rate was 94%, compared with 90% statewide. Chronic absenteeism was 15%, below the state’s 24% but above the district’s 12%. The clearest academic takeaway is that the school was above Illinois in eight of nine reported test comparisons.
There is no second school in the data, so there is no meaningful school-to-school top or bottom comparison. Within its results, Durand High School’s strongest comparison was 10th-grade PreACT Secure ELA: 78% proficient, 25 percentage points above the state. It was also 22 points above the state in 10th-grade science and 20 points above in 9th-grade science. Across the reported comparisons, science had the largest average advantage over the state at 15 points, followed by ELA at 13 and math at 5. The exception was 10th-grade PreACT Secure math, where 32% were proficient, 4 points below the state.
Results improved overall from 2024–25: seven of nine matched scores rose, and the school’s average increase was 8 percentage points, while the state average edged down by less than 1 point. Gains included 23 points in 9th-grade math and 23 in 10th-grade science; exceptions included declines of 12 points in 9th-grade ELA and 8 in 11th-grade ACT math. SchoolDigger’s ranking rose from the 23rd percentile in 2023–24 to the 81st in 2025–26, an increase of 58 percentile points. For context, the student-teacher ratio was 10.1 in 2024–25, and 32% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year; these figures describe the school, but there is no other school here for comparison.
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