Schools in Zip Code 62551

Zip code 62551 has one listed public high school, Sangamon Valley High School, serving grades 9–12 and 204 students. With no other listed schools, families have no local school-to-school comparison in this dataset. The school’s results vary by grade: ninth graders were notably above state proficiency in ELA and science, while math was below the state in all three tested grades. In 2025–2026, math proficiency was 11 to 16 percentage points below state results in grades 9–11, making it the clearest consistent academic concern.

The school’s strongest test results were in ninth-grade ELA and science: 76% were proficient in ELA versus 62% statewide, and 62% in science versus 47% statewide—about 15 points above the state in each subject. Ninth-grade math was 31%, 11 points below the state. Tenth- and 11th-grade results were below state levels in all three subjects; math had the largest gaps, at 16 points below in grade 10 and 14 points below in grade 11. Other reported measures are positive in comparison with the state: the 2025–2026 graduation rate was 100%, versus 90% statewide, and chronic absenteeism was 19%, versus 24% statewide, though it was 5 points higher than the district’s 14%.

Results improved relative to the state in grades 9 and 10 between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, but all three 11th-grade ACT gaps widened; averaged across the nine grade-and-subject comparisons, the gap narrowed by 8 points. Ninth-grade proficiency rose by 18 points in ELA, 18 in math, and 28 in science, while 11th-grade ACT proficiency fell by 1 to 3 points across subjects. SchoolDigger gives the school 2 stars; its reported ranking percentile rose from the 34th to the 45th, while its statewide rank changed from 460 of 698 to 344 of 620. Context figures include an 11.3 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 66% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year.