Summary:
High schools in East Dubuque Unified School District 119 consist of one school in the East Dubuque area: East Dubuque High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 180 students. Its clearest bright spot in 2025–2026 was grade 9 ELA, with 66% proficient compared with 62% statewide, a 4-point advantage. The most important concern is mathematics: the school was below the state in all three tested grades, and its average was 32% proficient versus 39% statewide, an 8-point shortfall.
There is no second high school in the list to compare as a local leader or trailer. Within its state comparisons, East Dubuque High School was strongest in grade 9 ELA, while grade 10 math was its clearest weakness: 22% proficient versus 36% statewide, 15 points lower. ELA was near the state average overall—55.4% versus 55.0%, a 0.4-point school advantage—but that average masks differences by grade: grade 10 was 6 points below the state, while grades 9 and 11 were 4 and 3 points above. Science averaged 45% proficient, 3 points below the state. Chronic absenteeism was lower than the state rate (15% versus 24%, an 8-point difference), but graduation was lower (80% versus 90%, a 10-point gap).
Overall results moved from a slight advantage to a shortfall: the school’s average across the nine listed subject-and-grade results fell from 49% in 2024–2025, 1 point above the state, to 44% in 2025–2026, 3 points below. The SchoolDigger ranking also shifted from 223rd of 698 schools, at the 68th percentile, to 300th of 620, at the 52nd percentile. One exception to the broader decline was grade 9 ELA, where the school’s lead over the state grew from 3 points to 4; grade 9 math moved the other way, from 7 points above the state to 2 below. As context, 30% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio that year was 8.5.
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