Summary:
Chsd 94 has one high school: West Chicago Community High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 2,040 students. The clearest concern for families is that the school’s results were below state results in every reported subject and grade in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026; in the latest year, the gaps ranged from 4 to 14 percentage points.
As the only school in the list, West Chicago is both the area’s highest and lowest performer, with no other local school to compare. Its strongest 2025–2026 result was grade 9 ELA, at 51% versus 62% statewide, a gap of 10 points. Its lowest was grade 10 math, at 28% versus 36%, a gap of 9 points. The largest shortfall was grade 11 ACT ELA: 36% at the school compared with 50% statewide, a 14-point gap. The pattern spans subjects, though ELA is the school’s largest relative weakness across the two years; science was comparatively closest to state results.
Recent results point to a sharper decline in grade 11 than in the lower grades. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, grade 11 results fell 7 points in ELA, 7 in math, and 8 in science; grade 10 PreACT results rose modestly, while grade 9 ELA and math improved and science slipped. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking also declined, from 46th in 2023–2024 to 43rd and then 30th in 2025–2026; its current listing gives the school 1 star. Other context: chronic absenteeism is 33%, 9 points above the state’s 24%, while graduation is 86% versus 90% statewide and dropout is 2% at both. The student-teacher ratio is 14.7, and 40% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2021–2022. Because this is the only school listed, there is no school-to-school comparison, and the income measure is from an earlier school year.
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