Summary:
Mendota Township HSD 280 is a small school district in Illinois that serves the community of Mendota. The district has only one high school, Mendota Township High School, which enrolls 493 students in grades 9-12.
Mendota Township High School's performance is below the state average in several key areas. The school's 4-year graduation rate of 84.4% is lower than the Illinois state average, and its dropout rate of 2.8% is slightly higher. The school also struggles with high chronic absenteeism, with 20.1% of students chronically absent, significantly more than the state average. On standardized tests, Mendota Township High School's students scored well below the state averages in Mathematics (14.2% proficient vs. 26.1%) and English Language Arts (23% proficient vs. 31.1%), though their Science scores were closer to the state average at 49.5% proficient compared to 53.2%.
Despite spending $18,097 per student, which is higher than the state average, and having a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 13.3, Mendota Township High School is struggling to translate its resources into improved academic outcomes for its students. Over half (51.52%) of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a socioeconomically disadvantaged population that may require additional support and interventions to help improve the school's overall performance.
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