Summary:
The 61350 zip code is home to a single high school, Ottawa Township High School, which serves grades 9-12. While the school has a relatively large student population of 1,270, its performance metrics and rankings are generally below average compared to state-wide averages.
Ottawa Township High School's 4-year graduation rate of 89.0% is slightly below the state average, and its dropout rate of 2.4% is slightly higher. The school also struggles with a chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4%, which is significantly higher than the state average. Academically, the school's test scores in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science are all below the state averages, with the largest gaps in Mathematics, where only 23.9% of students are proficient or better, compared to the state average of 39.3%.
The school's performance has declined over the past few years, dropping from a statewide ranking of 275 out of 697 schools in 2023-2024 to 404 out of 698 schools in 2024-2025. Additionally, the school is part of the Ottawa Township HSD 140 district, which is ranked 598 out of 811 districts in Illinois and is rated 1 star out of 5 by SchoolDigger, suggesting that the district as a whole may be struggling to provide high-quality education to its students.
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