Summary:
The high-school list for Kewanee CUSD 229 includes one school, Kewanee High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 582 students. Its 2025–26 results and graduation, dropout, and attendance rates are generally below state comparisons. Across the nine reported test results, the school averaged 33% proficient, compared with 47% statewide, a 14-point gap. Most importantly, every result was below the state, with mathematics the clearest weakness: the subject averages were 21% at Kewanee and 39% statewide, a 19-point gap.
Kewanee High School is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this list by default; there are no other local high schools here for a meaningful school-to-school comparison. Its strongest current result is grade 11 ACT ELA, at 48% proficient versus 50% statewide—a gap of 2 points. Its largest shortfall is grade 10 PreACT Secure science: 27% versus 48% statewide, or 22 points lower. Other outcomes also trail state figures: graduation is 82% versus 90%, while chronic absenteeism is 36% versus 24% and dropout is 5% versus 2%.
Test results improved overall between 2024–25 and 2025–26, but not in every grade: the school’s nine-result average rose from 30% to 33%, while the average gap with the state narrowed from 17 points to 14. Grade 11 ACT and grade 9 results rose across all three subjects; grade 10 ELA fell 16 points and science fell 17, while mathematics rose 3 points. SchoolDigger lists the school at rank 511 of 738, in the 31st percentile, with 2 stars. For context, 61% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25, and the student–teacher ratio was 15.1 that year; these are profile details, not explanations for the results.
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