Summary:
Zip code 61756 has one high school, Maroa-Forsyth Senior High School, serving grades 9–12 in the Maroa-Forsyth area, with 348 students. The school’s 2025–26 results were above state proficiency rates in six of nine subject-and-grade comparisons, equal in one, and below in two. The most important takeaway is that results are generally strong compared with the state, while grade 9 is the clearest area of relative weakness.
There is no meaningful local top-to-bottom comparison because Maroa-Forsyth is the only school in the list. Its strongest comparison was grade 10 ELA, where 77% were proficient versus 54% statewide, a 24-point advantage; grade 11 science was also notably higher, at 68% versus 48%, a 20-point advantage. In grade 9, science matched the state at 47%, while ELA was virtually even (61.4% versus 61.5%) and math was 40% versus 42%, a 2-point shortfall. Other indicators are favorable: graduation was 96% versus 90% statewide, and chronic absenteeism was 16% versus 24% statewide, though it was 3 points higher than the district’s rate.
Recent results show a split between stronger grade 11 ACT results and declines in grade 9. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, grade 11 math and science proficiency rose 21 and 18 points, respectively; grade 9 ELA fell 16 points, science fell 14, and math fell 6. Grade 10 results were mixed, changing by −2 points in ELA, +4 in math, and −3 in science. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 76th percentile in 2023–24, 84th in 2024–25, and 81st in 2025–26. Context measures include a 15.7 student-teacher ratio in 2024–25 and 26% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25.
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