Dr. Donna Leak Vice-Chair - Flossmoor | firststudentinc.com
Dr. Donna Leak Vice-Chair - Flossmoor | firststudentinc.com
That's according to an analysis from McLean County Times of test scores compiled by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).
ISBE reports that in the 2023-24 school year, 79.5% of Livingston County's 425 public high school students—approximately 337 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.
Dwight High School (88.9%), Flanagan-Cornell High School (88.5%), and Prairie Central High School (81.3%) had the highest failure rate in Livingston County, and Woodland High School (73.2%) and Tri-Point High School (70.3%) had the lowest.
No high school in Livingston County had a student passing rate exceeding 50%.
Countywide, math test failure rates fell from 80.7% in the 2022-23 school year to 79.5% in the 2023-24 school year.
Failure rates increased at three Livingston County high schools in the 2023-24 school year, with the most significant increase happening at Dwight High School, where the rate jumped from 81.3% to 88.9%.
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.
Flanagan-Cornell High School and Pontiac High School were the only Livingston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dwight High School | 54 | 81.3% | 88.9% |
| Flanagan-Cornell High School | 26 | 95.5% | 88.5% |
| Prairie Central High School | 112 | 81.1% | 81.3% |
| Pontiac High School | 165 | 83% | 77% |
| Woodland High School | 41 | 71.4% | 73.2% |
| Tri-Point High School | 27 | 69.5% | 70.3% |
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