High Schools in Mount Olive CUSD 5

Mount Olive CUSD 5 is a small school district in Illinois that contains a single high school, Mt Olive High School. The school serves students in grades 9-12 and has seen fluctuating performance in recent years, with its statewide ranking ranging from 105th out of 697 Illinois high schools in 2023-2024 to 451st out of 699 in 2022-2023.

Academically, Mt Olive High School has shown mixed results. While the school's four-year graduation rate of 89.0% is slightly above the state average, its performance on standardized tests like the ACT and SAT has been uneven. The school's proficiency rates in English Language Arts and Science are close to or above the state averages, but its mathematics proficiency lags behind. Additionally, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4% is higher than the state average.

Demographically, Mt Olive High School serves a population with a relatively high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (50.75% in 2023-2024), indicating a higher proportion of students from low-income families. The school's per-student spending is above the state average, and it has a low student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1 to 1, suggesting that the Mount Olive CUSD 5 district is allocating significant resources to the school. However, the inconsistent academic performance indicates that the school may need to evaluate the effectiveness of its resource allocation and explore ways to optimize the use of these resources to improve student outcomes.