Summary:
ZIP code 62205 has two schools in East St Louis School District 189: East St Louis Senior High School, serving grades 9–12, and Annette Officer Elementary, serving kindergarten–grade 4. Enrollment is 1,288 at the high school and 362 at Officer. The most striking difference is attendance: 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism was 73% at the high school and 18% at Officer; those rates were 50 points above and 6 points below the state rate, respectively.
Officer stands out in comparison with its district: its 2025–2026 all-grades results were 38% in ELA and 30% in math, versus district results of 31% and 14%—advantages of 7 and 16 points. It still trailed the state by 19 points in ELA and 10 in math. The high school’s 11th-grade ACT results were much farther below state benchmarks: 14% in ELA, 9% in math, and 11% in science, with gaps of 36, 31, and 37 points. Its ACT results were close to, but slightly below, district results. Elementary IAR and high-school ACT/PreACT results cover different grades and tests, so the schools cannot be fairly ranked head to head by proficiency.
Recent trends are mixed. Officer’s all-grades ELA and math results fell by 5 and 4 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while state results rose; its gaps widened by 8 points in ELA and 6 in math. At the high school, grade 11 ACT and grade 10 PreACT results generally improved relative to the state, but grade 9 PreACT results moved in the opposite direction. SchoolDigger rankings also declined: the high school went from the 11th to the 4th percentile, and Officer from the 51st to the 16th. Student-teacher ratios were 15.5 at the high school and 14.4 at Officer. Both schools report “all students receive free meals (Community Eligibility)” for 2024–2025; this shared measure is not a percentage.
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