Seneca Township HSD 160

Seneca Township HSD 160 is a single-school district in Illinois, with Seneca High School serving students in grades 9-12. The school has maintained a consistent 3-star rating from SchoolDigger over the past three years, and its statewide ranking has improved, moving from 234th out of 699 Illinois high schools in 2021-2022 to 219th out of 697 in 2023-2024. Seneca High School boasts a strong 4-year graduation rate of 91.7%, which is higher than the state average, but it also faces challenges with a relatively high chronic absenteeism rate of 16.8%.

Academically, Seneca High School's proficiency rates on the SAT and ISA assessments are mixed compared to the state averages. While the school performs better than the state in SAT English Language Arts (34.1% proficient or better vs. 31.1%), it lags behind in SAT Mathematics (18.7% proficient or better vs. 26.1%). However, the school excels in ISA Science, with 60.4% of students proficient or better, compared to the state average of 53.2%. The school's student-teacher ratio of 10.1 is relatively low, suggesting a favorable learning environment.

Despite its overall strong performance, Seneca Township HSD 160 faces some socioeconomic challenges, with a free and reduced-price lunch rate of 33.25% at Seneca High School, indicating a significant population of economically disadvantaged students. The district as a whole is ranked 289th out of 813 districts in Illinois and is rated 3 stars out of 5 by SchoolDigger.