Summary:
Zip code 62246 has one listed high school, Bond City Community Unit 2 High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 484 students. Its 2025–2026 graduation rate was 97%, compared with 90% statewide, while chronic absenteeism was 19% versus 24% statewide. The most important concern is that its average test-score gap with the state widened: across nine matched results, the gap grew from 2 points in 2024–2025 to 6 points in 2025–2026, with science showing the sharpest shortfall.
There are no top or bottom schools to compare with one another in this one-school list. Within Bond City’s latest results, grade 10 PreACT ELA stands out positively: 59% met the benchmark, compared with 54% statewide, a 6-point advantage. Grade 10 math was nearly even with the state, at 37% versus 36%. The largest shortfall was grade 9 PreACT science, where 33% met the benchmark versus 47% statewide, a 14-point gap; grade 11 ACT science was also below the state, at 38% versus 48%. Overall, ELA was the school’s strongest subject relative to the state, while science was its weakest.
Results moved in different directions, but the broader trend was unfavorable: the school’s average across the matched tests fell from 46% to 42%, while the state average stayed near 48%. Grade 10 ELA and math improved relative to the state, but the grade 9 science gap widened by 12 points, and grade 11 ACT science also fell further behind. SchoolDigger’s statewide rating declined from rank 120 of 697 schools and 4 stars in 2023–2024 to rank 363 of 620 and 2 stars in 2025–2026; its percentile fell from 83 to 41. As context, Bond City’s student-teacher ratio was 13.9 in 2024–2025, and 45% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year.
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