Cahokia High School Principal Mr. Anson Mitchell (2023) | Cahokia High School
Cahokia High School Principal Mr. Anson Mitchell (2023) | Cahokia High School
That's according to an analysis from Metro East Sun of test scores compiled by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).
ISBE reports that in the 2023-24 school year, 78.4% of St. Clair County's 3,373 public high school students—approximately 2,644 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.
Cahokia High School (100%), Southern Illinois University Charter School of East St. Louis (100%), and East St. Louis Senior High School had the highest failure rate in St. Clair County (98.2%), and Mascoutah High School (60.3%) and Freeburg Community High School (59.2%) had the lowest.
No high school in St. Clair County had a student passing rate exceeding 50%.
Countywide, math test failure rates fell from 78.5% in the 2022-23 school year to 78.4% in the 2023-24 school year.
Failure rates increased at four St. Clair County high schools in the 2023-24 school year, with the most significant increase happening at Lebanon High School, where the rate jumped from 79.3% to 88.6%.
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.
Freeburg Community High School and Marissa Junior and Senior High School were the only St. Clair 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cahokia High School | 164 | 100% | 100% |
| Southern Illinois University Charter School of East St. Louis | 30 | 100% | 100% |
| East St. Louis Senior High School | 339 | 99.6% | 98.2% |
| Dupo High School | 56 | 88.9% | 91.1% |
| Lebanon High School | 35 | 79.3% | 88.6% |
| Belleville West High School | 515 | 82.6% | 86.2% |
| Collinsville High School | 459 | 85.1% | 85.6% |
| New Athens High School | 32 | 82.2% | 84.4% |
| Marissa Junior and Senior High School | 43 | 83% | 81.4% |
| Belleville East High School | 646 | 77.9% | 76.7% |
| O'Fallon High School | 590 | 63.6% | 61.7% |
| Mascoutah High School | 300 | 60.8% | 60.3% |
| Freeburg Community High School | 164 | 64% | 59.2% |
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