Summary:
North Clay Community High School is the only high school in North Clay CUSD 25, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 178 students. Its reported graduation rate was 89% in 2025–2026, close to the state’s 90%, and chronic absenteeism was 21%, below the state’s 24%. The most important academic finding is that all seven reported school–state proficiency comparisons were below the state, by 5 to 21 percentage points.
There is no second school in the group, so the school cannot be ranked against local peers; its strongest and weakest results are comparisons with the state. Its closest result was grade 11 ACT Science: 43% proficient versus 48% statewide, a 5-point shortfall. Its largest shortfall was grade 10 PreACT Secure ELA: 33% versus 54%, or 21 points lower. Across the three matched ELA comparisons, the school averaged 15 points below the state; across the three Science comparisons, it averaged 11 points below. Grade 11 ACT Mathematics and grade 10 PreACT Secure Mathematics results are suppressed, so they cannot be compared.
Comparable results moved closer to state levels overall, though progress varied by grade and subject: the average gap across seven comparisons narrowed from 17 points in 2024–2025 to 13 points in 2025–2026, a 4-point improvement. Science had the clearest gains: grade 11 ACT Science proficiency rose 14 points and grade 10 PreACT Secure Science rose 15 points, while grade 9 PreACT Secure ELA fell 9 points. These are successive cohorts, not the same students. SchoolDigger placed the school at the 25th percentile in 2025–2026, compared with the 30th percentile in 2023–2024 (rank 467 of 620). The school’s student–teacher ratio was 11 in 2024–2025, and 44% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures provide context, not an explanation for outcomes.
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