Brent Rademacher Principal at BHRA High School | Official Website
Brent Rademacher Principal at BHRA High School | Official Website
That's according to an analysis from Chambana Sun of test scores compiled by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).
ISBE reports that in the 2023-24 school year, 90.8% of Vermilion County's 598 public high school students—approximately 542 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.
Danville High School (94.5%), Armstrong High School (93.1%), and Hoopeston Area High School (90.5%) had the highest failure rate in Vermilion County, and Georgetown-Ridge Farm High School (87.3%) and Oakwood High School (83.1%) had the lowest.
No high school in Vermilion County had a student passing rate exceeding 50%.
Countywide, math test failure rates rose from 90.1% in the 2022-23 school year to 90.8% in the 2023-24 school year.
Failure rates increased at three Vermilion County high schools in the 2023-24 school year, with the most significant increase happening at Armstrong High School, where the rate jumped from 82.8% to 93.1%.
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.
Hoopeston Area High School and Georgetown-Ridge Farm High School were the only Vermilion 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danville High School | 239 | 95.3% | 94.5% |
| Armstrong High School | 29 | 82.8% | 93.1% |
| Hoopeston Area High School | 74 | 94.1% | 90.5% |
| Westville High School | 64 | 89.9% | 89.1% |
| Bismarck-Henning Rossville-Alvin Cooperative High School | 72 | 81.8% | 88.9% |
| Georgetown-Ridge Farm High School | 55 | 90.6% | 87.3% |
| Oakwood High School | 65 | 78.8% | 83.1% |
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