Summary:
High-school options in ZIP code 62863 consist of one school, Mount Carmel High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 452 students. There are no other local high schools in this data set to compare, so the meaningful benchmark is Illinois statewide results. In 2025–2026, Mount Carmel scored below the state in all nine listed ACT and PreACT Secure subject-and-grade comparisons; this is the most important finding for families assessing its academic results.
Mount Carmel is the group’s only school, so it is both the top and bottom school locally by default. Its strongest 2025–2026 result was 35% proficient in grade 11 ACT science, while its weakest was 18% in grade 9 PreACT Secure math, 25 percentage points below the state. Across the three listed results in each subject, the school averaged 36% in ELA, 23% in math and 30% in science. Its average gaps from state results were 19 points in ELA, 17 in math and 17 in science. Although math had the lowest proficiency, ELA had the largest average shortfall against the state.
Results worsened from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in all nine matched comparisons, and the state gap grew in eight. For example, grade 11 ACT science fell from 56% to 35%, changing from 7 points above the state to 13 points below; grade 9 science was the exception, with its state gap narrowing from 18 points to 16. SchoolDigger’s ranking also declined, from 256 of 697 schools (63rd percentile) in 2023–2024 to 500 of 620 (19th percentile) in 2025–2026, and it gives the school 1 star in its current listing. For context, the school had a 15:1 student–teacher ratio and 48% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025.
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