Summary:
Zip code 62875 has one listed high school, Patoka Senior High School, serving grades 9–12 with 61 students. With no other high schools in the list, these figures describe one school rather than a set of schools to compare locally. The clearest concern is mathematics: the 2024–2025 results for grades 10 and 11 were far below Illinois, making upper-grade math the most important area to examine.
Patoka Senior High School stands out positively in grade 9 and has its lowest results in math for grades 10 and 11. In 2024–2025, grade 9 PreACT ELA was 90%, 28 percentage points above the state’s 62%; grade 9 science was 70%, 20 points ahead, and grade 9 math was 40%, 2 points higher. By contrast, grade 10 math was 5% versus 35% statewide, and grade 11 ACT math was 7% versus 39%—29 and 32 points lower, respectively. Grade 10 ELA was also below the state: 37% versus 55%.
Grade 9 ELA remained above the state the following year, but its lead narrowed: Patoka’s result fell from 90% to 77%, while the state result moved from 62.4% to 61.5%; the school’s advantage shrank by 13 points. Separately, SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking improved from 509th of 699 schools in 2022–2023 to 355th of 698 in 2024–2025, while its rating rose from one to two stars. Other context includes a student-teacher ratio of 8.5 and 36% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 18%, below the state’s 24%, and graduation was 88.9%, close to the state’s 89.8%.
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