Summary:
Momence CUSD 1 has one high school, Momence High School, serving grades 9–12, with 315 students. Its 2025–2026 graduation rate was 92%, above the state’s 90%, while chronic absenteeism was 38%, compared with 24% statewide and 27% in the district. The most important academic finding is that the school scored below the state in every reported subject, grade and test in 2025–2026.
Because this is the only high school in the list, there are no local schools to rank against one another; within its own results, grade 9 PreACT Secure ELA was the closest to the state, at 51% versus 62%, a gap of 11 points. Grade 10 PreACT Secure science was farthest behind, at 25% versus 48%, a 24-point gap. Math is the weakest subject overall relative to the state: its average gap across grades 9 and 10 and the grade 11 ACT was 23 points, compared with 18 points in science and 17 in ELA. The school averaged 19 points below the state across all nine comparisons.
Results shifted in different directions year over year, and the overall gap narrowed only slightly: the average was about 20 points below the state in 2024–2025 and about 19 points below in 2025–2026. Grade 9 PreACT ELA rose 9 points and math rose 8, while grade 11 ACT ELA fell 9 points and grade 10 PreACT ELA fell 7. SchoolDigger’s ranking percentile declined from the 40th in 2023–2024 to the 17th in 2025–2026, a drop of 23 percentile points, despite those grade 9 gains. As context, the student-teacher ratio was 12.6 in 2024–2025, and 63% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. This single-school list cannot show how these figures compare with other local high schools.
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