Summary:
The high-school list for ZIP code 61281 contains one school, Sherrard High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 449 students. With no other high schools listed, families can compare its results with Illinois statewide figures, but not with local peers. The clearest overall strength is ELA: across the available grade-and-test results, the school’s average margin was 11 percentage points above the state.
Compared with Illinois in 2025–2026, the school’s strongest results were in 11th-grade ACT ELA, at 70% versus 50% statewide, a 20-point advantage, and ACT science, at 59% versus 48%, an 11-point advantage. Its lowest relative result was 10th-grade PreACT Secure science: 43% compared with 48% statewide, or 5 points lower. 11th-grade ACT mathematics was also slightly below the state, 38% versus 40%, about 2 points lower. Graduation was above the state rate, at 94% versus 90%, while chronic absenteeism was 21% versus 24% statewide; it was higher than the rate in Sherrard CUSD 200, 21% versus 15%.
Across the same nine grade-and-test comparisons, the average school–state margin rose from about 1 point in 2024–2025 to about 5 points in 2025–2026, an improvement of about 4 points, though results varied: 11th-grade ACT ELA rose 15 points at the school, while 10th-grade PreACT science fell 19 points and its margin shifted from 13 points above the state to 5 below. These are comparisons of different yearly cohorts. SchoolDigger ranked the school 178th of 620, at the 71st percentile with four stars in 2025–2026; its percentile was 58 in 2023–2024 and 71 in the two following years. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 13.3 in 2024–2025 and 26% free/reduced lunch eligible that year.
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