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Best High Schools in Zip Code 61764

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Top rankedPontiac High School313^th of 620 Illinois high schools

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Summary:

Zip code 61764 has one high school, Pontiac High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 658 students. Its 2025–2026 graduation rate was 84%, below Illinois’ 90%; its dropout rate was 3% versus 2% statewide, while chronic absenteeism was lower at 22% versus 24%. The clearest current academic concern is math: Pontiac’s results averaged 6 percentage points below Illinois, its largest subject gap.

There is no local top or bottom school to compare because Pontiac is the only school in the list. Compared with Illinois, its strongest subject in 2025–2026 was science, where results averaged 2 points below the state; ELA averaged 3 points below, and math 6 points below. Pontiac was behind the state in math at all three tested levels: 34% versus 40% on the 11th-grade ACT, 33% versus 36% on the 10th-grade PreACT, and 33% versus 42% on the 9th-grade PreACT. These subject comparisons offer a clearer picture of relative strengths and needs than a within-area school ranking can.

Overall, Pontiac’s average gap across the nine subject and grade results widened from 3 points below Illinois in 2024–2025 to 4 points below in 2025–2026, but science improved while ELA and math weakened. Ninth-grade science rose 6 points, from 39% to 46%, and its gap with the state narrowed from 11 points to 2; in contrast, ACT ELA fell 9 points and ACT math fell 8. SchoolDigger ranked Pontiac 313th of 620 Illinois high schools, at the 50th percentile, and gave it 2 stars in 2025–2026, down from the 61st percentile the prior year. Pontiac’s student-teacher ratio was 13:1, and 46% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in school year 2024–2025.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				PreACT Secure English Language Arts (2026)		PreACT Secure Mathematics (2026)		PreACT Secure Science (2026)		ACT English Language Arts (2026)	ACT Mathematics (2026)	ACT Science (2026)	Vaccination (2025-26)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2026)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	PreACT Secure English Language Arts 9th Grade	PreACT Secure English Language Arts 10th Grade	PreACT Secure Mathematics 9th Grade	PreACT Secure Mathematics 10th Grade	PreACT Secure Science 9th Grade	PreACT Secure Science 10th Grade	ACT English Language Arts 11th Grade	ACT Mathematics 11th Grade	ACT Science 11th Grade	Vaccination: Measles protection (all grades)	Vaccination: Exemption rate	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Livingston Area Career Center	Public	10-12	1100 E Indiana Ave	Pontiac	61764	Livingston County	DeWitt/Livingstn/Logan/McLean ROE	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(815) 674-4558	0	0	.0	—	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()								(n/a)
Pontiac High School	Public	9-12	1100 E Indiana Ave	Pontiac	61764	Livingston County	Pontiac Township HSD 90	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(815) 844-6113	658	51	13.0	45.9%	501 (76.1%)	21 (3.2%)	92 (14.0%)	3 (0.5%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	39 (5.9%)	47.3	313^th of 620 public high schools	49.5%		56.9	274^th of 698 public high schools	60.7%	39	57.9	49.3	33.1	33.1	45.5	47.1	49.0	33.8	44.4	98%		$25,067	$766	$24,302

Cities Near Zip Code 61764

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Pontiac	0.28 mi	6	602^nd
Graymont	7.29 mi	1
Cornell	9.08 mi	1	361^st
Odell	10.31 mi	1	499^th
Chenoa	10.88 mi	1

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education.

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