Summary:
The high-school list for Villa Grove CUSD 302 includes one school, Villa Grove High School, serving grades 9–12 with 194 students. Since it is the only school listed, comparisons are with Illinois rather than other local high schools. The most important finding is that its grade-11 ACT results fell from above the state in all three subjects in 2024–2025 to below the state in all three in 2025–2026.
Villa Grove High School’s strongest current comparison is ninth-grade PreACT ELA: 61% proficient, about 1 percentage point below the state’s 62%. Its weakest is grade-11 ACT Science, at 24% compared with 48% statewide, a 24-point gap. The other ACT results were also below state levels: ELA was 41%, 9 points below, and Mathematics was 26%, 14 points below. Results vary by grade and subject: grade-10 PreACT ELA was 33%, 21 points below the state, while grade-10 Mathematics matched the state at 36%.
The ACT decline was especially sharp in Science: from 55% in 2024–2025 to 24% in 2025–2026, a 31-point drop. The school’s average across the three ACT subjects fell from 52% to 30%, while the state average moved from 47% to 46%. SchoolDigger ranked the school 408th of 620, in the 34th percentile, with two stars in 2025–2026; its percentile had been 72 in 2023–2024 and 56 in 2024–2025. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 11.8 and a free/reduced lunch eligible share of 48% in 2024–2025. Graduation was 91% in 2025–2026, 1 point above the state, while chronic absenteeism was 28%, 4 points higher than the state.
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