Summary:
The 62311 zip code has only one school, Southeastern Junior/Senior High School, a public high school serving grades 7-12 with a total enrollment of 187 students. The school is part of the Southeastern CUSD 337 district, which is ranked 605 out of 811 districts in Illinois and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Southeastern Junior/Senior High School has a 4-year graduation rate of 89.0% for the 2024-2025 school year, slightly above the state average, and a dropout rate of 2.4%, lower than the state average. However, the school's performance on standardized tests is mixed, with English Language Arts proficiency rates on par with or slightly below state and district averages, but significantly lower Mathematics proficiency rates ranging from 17.9% to 30.3% proficient across different grade levels. The school also has a high chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4%, higher than the state average.
The school's per-student spending for 2023-2024 is $15,662, higher than the state average, and it has a student-teacher ratio of 13.6, lower than the state average. Additionally, the school has a high percentage of students (56.15%) receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a relatively high level of economic disadvantage among the student population. These factors likely contribute to the school's overall performance, which has declined from a 3-star to a 2-star rating on SchoolDigger, and its ranking has dropped from 240 out of 697 Illinois high schools in 2023-2024 to 475 out of 698 in 2024-2025.
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