Summary:
Zip code 62966 has one listed high school, Murphysboro High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 565 students. In 2025–26, its proficiency rates were below Illinois’s in all nine reported subject-and-grade results. Across the three listed grades, the school averaged 49% in ELA versus 55% statewide, and 40% in science versus 48% statewide. The clearest concern is mathematics: its average was 26% at the school versus 39% statewide, a 13-point shortfall.
There is no local top-or-bottom school comparison because Murphysboro is the only high school in the list. Against the state, its closest result was grade 11 ACT science: 44% proficient, 4 points below the state’s 48%. Its largest gap was grade 9 PreACT mathematics, with 26% proficient compared with 42% statewide, a 16-point shortfall. Mathematics was behind the state in all three grades, by 12 points in grade 11, 12 in grade 10 and 16 in grade 9. Chronic absenteeism was also higher than the state rate: 29% versus 24%, or 6 points higher. The graduation rate was 87%, compared with 90% statewide.
Results weakened overall from 2024–25 to 2025–26: Murphysboro’s proficiency fell in seven of nine comparisons, though its grade 10 and grade 9 PreACT mathematics results rose by 5 and 1 points, respectively. Its grade 11 ACT mathematics result fell by 5 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking rose from 455 of 697 schools (35th percentile) in 2023–24 to 318 of 698 (54th percentile) in 2024–25, then dropped to 424 of 620 (32nd percentile) in 2025–26. As context, 97% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25, and the student-teacher ratio that year was 12.4.
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