Summary:
The 62422 zip code is home to a single public high school, Cowden-Herrick Junior/Senior High School, which serves grades 6-12 with a total enrollment of 170 students. The school is part of the Cowden-Herrick CUSD 3A district, which is ranked 284 out of 811 districts in Illinois and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Cowden-Herrick Junior/Senior High School has demonstrated strong performance in several key areas. In the 2024-2025 school year, the school outperformed the state average in English Language Arts proficiency, with 76.9% of students scoring proficient or better, compared to the state average of 53.1%. However, the school's mathematics performance has been more variable, with 42.2% of students scoring proficient or better in the 2024-2025 school year, slightly above the state average of 38.5%. The school also had a relatively high chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4% in the same year, which could be an area for improvement.
Socioeconomic factors also play a role, as over two-thirds of the school's students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2023-2024 school year. Despite these challenges, Cowden-Herrick Junior/Senior High School has maintained a strong graduation rate of 89.0% and a low dropout rate of 2.4% for the 2024-2025 school year. The school's student-teacher ratio of 10.3 to 1 and per-student spending of $15,416 in the 2023-2024 school year suggest a focus on providing a supportive learning environment for its students.
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