Summary:
Zip code 61252 has one high school, Fulton High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 284 students. Its 2025–2026 results show a stronger profile in science and ELA than in math: scores were above Illinois in all three science results and two of three ELA results, while 10th-grade math was notably below the state. The clearest positive overall indicator is graduation: Fulton’s rate was 99%, compared with 90% statewide, a 9-point advantage.
Fulton is both the only school in the area list and its sole school-level standout, so there is no top-to-bottom comparison among local schools. Its strongest tested subject was science, averaging 54% across grades 9–11 compared with 48% statewide, or 6 points higher; ELA averaged 63% versus 55%, or 8 points higher. Math was the weak spot: its three-result average was 36% versus 39% statewide, 4 points lower. The clearest shortfall was grade 10 math, at 26% compared with 36% statewide—10 points below. Chronic absenteeism was 21%, lower than the state’s 24% but higher than the 19% rate in River Bend CUSD 2.
Results improved overall from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the average across the same nine test results moved from about 4 points below the state to about 3 points above it, an improvement of about 8 points in the gap. Eight of the nine state-relative gaps improved; grade 10 science was the exception, while grade 9 math rose 17 points and grade 11 ACT ELA rose 16 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking history also moved upward, from the 50th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 68th in 2025–2026. For context, the school had a 12.2 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025, and 38% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Because the list contains only one school, it cannot show how Fulton compares with other nearby high schools.
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