Summary:
Zip code 62948 has four schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12 in Herrin CUSD 4, from North Side Primary Center through the high school. Attendance is a relative strength: 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism was below the state’s 24% at all four schools, ranging from 9% at the elementary school to 23% at the high school. The clearest academic contrast is between strong middle-school results and high-school grade 11 results that fell below state levels in all three reported subjects.
Herrin Middle School stands out most consistently: its 2025–2026 IAR results exceeded state results in every reported grade and subject, including grade 8 math by 14 percentage points and science by 12 points. The elementary school also had a strong overall math result, 49% compared with 40% statewide, though its all-grades ELA result was only about 1 point above the state. By contrast, Herrin C U S D 4 Elementary School’s grade 5 results were below state levels, especially ELA, and Herrin High School’s grade 11 ACT results were 9 points below the state in ELA, 1 point below in math, and 10 points below in science. No test-score results were supplied for North Side.
Results are changing unevenly: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, elementary IAR scores fell 4 points in ELA and 7 in math, while middle-school scores rose 2 points in ELA and 7 in math. SchoolDigger rankings also declined from earlier years: the elementary school moved from the 72nd to the 53rd percentile, the high school from the 77th to the 47th, and the middle school from the 70th to the 64th. These rankings are not proficiency scores. For context, all four schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible for school year 2024–2025; shares ranged from 59% at the high school to 70% at North Side. Student-teacher ratios were fairly close, from 11.9 at North Side to 13.6 at the elementary school.
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