Summary:
The Egyptian CUSD 5 district in Illinois is home to a single high school, Egyptian Senior High School, which serves students in grades 9-12. The school has consistently ranked in the bottom half of Illinois high schools, with poor academic performance on standardized tests and high rates of chronic absenteeism and dropout.
Egyptian Senior High School faces significant challenges, with only 30.8% of 11th-grade students proficient or better in English Language Arts and just 15.4% proficient in Mathematics, compared to state averages of 51.7% and 39.3%, respectively. The school's four-year graduation rate of 89.0% is slightly below the state average, and its dropout rate of 2.4% is higher than the state average. Additionally, the school has a very high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, at 98.86%.
Despite the higher-than-average per-student spending of $19,055 and a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 10:1, the school's academic outcomes remain poor. This suggests that the school may need to explore more effective strategies to support its economically disadvantaged student population and address the underlying factors contributing to the school's underperformance, such as chronic absenteeism and lack of academic support.
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