Summary:
Rock Falls Township HSD 301 has one listed school, Rock Falls Township High School, serving grades 9–12 with 530 students. There are no other schools in the area to compare, so the clearest picture comes from the school’s results against Illinois and changes over time. The main concern is test proficiency: in 2025–2026, the school was below the state in eight of nine matched exam-and-grade results, with the largest overall weakness in science.
Rock Falls Township High School is the area’s only school, so it cannot be described as an interschool leader or trailer. Its strongest relative test result was 9th-grade PreACT Secure ELA: 61.8% proficient, compared with 61.5% statewide, or 0.3 percentage points higher. Its largest gap was 11th-grade ACT mathematics, with 25% proficient versus 40% statewide, 15 points lower. Across the three listed results for each subject, the average gap was 5 points below the state in ELA, 10 points below in mathematics, and 12 points below in science. Graduation was a positive contrast: 92% graduated, compared with 90% statewide; chronic absenteeism was higher, at 25% versus 24%.
Results changed unevenly: all three 10th-grade PreACT scores rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, by 6 to 13 points, while all three 11th-grade ACT scores fell, by 5 to 8 points. Ninth-grade PreACT ELA and mathematics improved by about 5 points each, but science dropped 10 points. SchoolDigger’s school-rank history fell from the 44th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 34th percentile in 2025–2026, a 10-point decline; its separate district ranking is 592nd of 738, at the 20th percentile and rated one star. In 2024–2025, the school’s student-teacher ratio was 13.5, and 60% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. Because the area lists only one school, these figures cannot show differences among local schools.
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