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More on state high school report cards

Posted by: Tom Kacich

Thursday, November 8, 2007 9:03 AM

After I wrote a column last Sunday on the state school report cards for the high schools in our area, it was suggested that one apples-to-apples comparison would be to look at how white students performed at each high school.

That's probably not an entirely accurate comparsion either, because mobility and poverty rates are other factors that can influence test scores.

But these numbers ought to provide some assurance to the white families who supposedly are fleeing Champaign schools in great numbers, bound either for private schools or public schools in suburban areas.

These scores are based on the state's Prairie State Achievement Examination, taken by 11th-graders.

Writing

Central HS 74.8
Centennial HS 74.4
Mahomet-Seymour HS 68.8
Urbana HS 66.7
St. Joseph-Ogden HS 66.7
Fisher HS 60
Unity HS 54.6
Heritage HS 48.3
Rantoul Twp HS 36.4

Science

Central HS 70.9
Centennial HS 69.7
Mahomet-Seymour HS 64.6
Urbana HS 60.1
St. Joseph-Ogden 59.6
Fisher HS 55.8
Unity HS 54.7
Rantoul Twp HS 52.9
Heritage HS 37.9

Reading

Central HS 74.7
Centennial HS 71.7
Mahomet-Seymour HS 68.3
Fisher HS 67.4
Unity HS 65.7
Urbana HS 64.7
St. Joseph-Ogden 61.4
Heritage HS 51.7
Rantoul Twp HS 47.1

Math

Central HS 74
Centennial HS 73.7
St, Joseph-Ogden HS 71
Mahomet-Seymour HS 69.3
Urbana HS 54.2
Unity HS 53.7
Rantoul Twp HS 52.4
Fisher HS 51.9
Heritage HS 48.2