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Analysis: 75.1 percent of Bureau County public high school students failed 2022 state Math exam; Scores fell 5.200000000000003 percent from 2021

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Nearly 8 in 10 Bureau County public high school students aren't at grade level in Math.

That's according to a Illinois Valley Times analysis of 2022 test score data compiled by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).

ISBE reports that last year, 75.1 percent of Bureau County's 277 public high school 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.

DePue High School (100 percent) and Hall High School (76.8 percent) had the highest failure rates in Bureau County. Bureau Valley High School (71.5 percent) and La Moille Junior/Senior High School (64.2 percent) had the lowest.

No Bureau County high schools had a passing rate of more than 50 percent of students.

County-wide, Math test failure rates rose from 74.9 percent in 2019 to 75.1 percent in 2022.

The failure rate increased at two Bureau County high schools in 2022, with the most significant increase happening at DePue High School (100 percent).

Failure rates rose the most in Coles County (82.7 percent), Mercer County (83.5 percent), Pope County (89.8 percent), Union County (91.3 percent), and Henderson County (92.2 percent).

La Moille Junior/Senior High School and Bureau Valley High School were the only Bureau County high schools to see Math scores improve between 2019 and 2022.

Statewide, 70 percent of Illinois students failed the 2022 state Math exam, up from 64 percent in 2019.

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.”

Math Failure Rates in Bureau County High Schools in 2022

High School# of StudentsFailing % in 2019Failing % in 2021Failing % in 2022
DePue High School1792.7%92.6%100%
Hall High School6971.8%80.9%76.8%
Princeton High School10075%73.8%74%
Bureau Valley High School7773.3%86.1%71.5%
La Moille Junior/Senior High School1477.7%78.9%64.2%

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