Frankfort Community High School | Official Website
Frankfort Community High School | Official Website
That's according to an analysis from North Egypt News of test scores compiled by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).
ISBE reports that in the 2023-24 school year, 86.1% of Franklin County's 423 public high school students—approximately 364 students—failed the math portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and have “minimal (or) incomplete understanding of the knowledge and skills relative to Illinois Learning Standards.”
Students can achieve four proficiencies in their subjects: partially met, approaching, meets, and exceeds standards. This report concludes students who partially met or approached the standards have failed in the subject.
Thompsonville High School (96.3%), Sesser-Valier High School (93.7%), and Christopher High School (92.4%) had the highest failure rate in Franklin County, and Zeigler-Royalton High School (83.4%) and Benton Consolidated High School (79.5%) had the lowest.
No high school in Franklin County had a student passing rate exceeding 50%.
Countywide, math test failure rates fell from 89.3% in the 2022-23 school year to 86.1% in the 2023-24 school year.
Sesser-Valier High School was the only Franklin County high school to experience an increase in failure rates in the 2023-24 school year, reaching 93.7%.
Statewide, failure rates were highest in Bureau County, Christian County, Gallatin County, Schuyler County, and Hamilton County, where the percentage of students who failed the math exam were 82.4%, 91.6%, 93.4%, 93.6%, and 95.2%, respectively.
Zeigler-Royalton High School and Thompsonville High School were the only Franklin County high schools that saw math scores improve between the 2022-23 school year and the 2023-24 school year.
Data shows that 73.7% of Illinois students failed the 2023-24 school year state math exam, up from 73% in the 2022-23 school year.
The SAT test is administered to Illinois high school sophomores “to fulfill the requirement that students take an assessment for college and career readiness in order to receive a regular high school diploma.”
| High School | Student Count | Failure Rate in 2022-23 | Failure Rate in 2023-24 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thompsonville High School | 27 | 100% | 96.3% |
| Sesser-Valier High School | 47 | 87.5% | 93.7% |
| Christopher High School | 53 | 93.4% | 92.4% |
| Frankfort Community High School | 100 | 92.4% | 88% |
| Zeigler-Royalton High School | 30 | 92.8% | 83.4% |
| Benton Consolidated High School | 166 | 83.8% | 79.5% |
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