High Schools in Red Bud CUSD 132

Red Bud CUSD 132 has one high school, Red Bud High School, serving grades 9–12 and 396 students. In 2025–26, the school’s graduation rate was 100%, compared with 90% statewide, and chronic absenteeism was 10%, compared with 24% statewide. Test results were also generally favorable: the school was above Illinois in six of nine matched subject and grade comparisons. The clearest overall takeaway is that Red Bud combines strong graduation and attendance indicators with test proficiency above the state in most comparisons.

Red Bud High School’s strongest result was 67% proficient in ninth-grade PreACT Secure English Language Arts; its lowest was 33% in tenth-grade PreACT Secure Mathematics. Those results come from different grades and tests, but the state comparisons show where the school leads and falls behind: 11th-grade ACT Mathematics was 50%, 10 percentage points above the state, while 10th-grade PreACT Secure Mathematics was 3 points below the state (33% versus 36%). Red Bud was above the state in all three science comparisons, though its 10th-grade advantage was less than a point. English Language Arts varied by grade: ninth and 10th grade were above the state, while 11th grade was 3 points below.

Compared with 2024–25, Red Bud’s average gap over the state across the nine test comparisons grew from about 1 point to about 3 points, but four school scores declined and all three 10th-grade results fell. SchoolDigger ranks the school 197th of 620, at the 68th percentile, with 3 stars for 2025–26; its prior listing was 202nd of 698, at the 71st percentile, with 4 stars, and the different number of ranked schools makes that change hard to interpret. The student–teacher ratio was 13.6:1 in 2024–25, and 32% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these are school characteristics, not explanations for its results.