Graduation rates across the region

Belvidere, Freeport and Harlem school districts saw graduation rate

increases last year. Hononegah’s, the highest in the region, slipped by one Rockford Belvidere Harlem Freeport Hononegah Illinois
point while the state and Rockford each dropped by two. Numbers show (28,144 (8,003) (6,544) (3,957) (2,010) (2,001,529)
percentage of students that graduate high school in four years. students)

93% 91% 94% 91% 93%

83% 83% 86% 85% 86% 85% 87% 85%
79% 79% 75% 80% 78%
76% Hononegah 74%

Illinois
67% 67%
Freeport
Belvidere

65% 65%
Harlem
Rockford

2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018

State test scores across the Rock River Valley

Every year in October, the Illinois State Board of Education releases state test results. The results are from the annual Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for
College and Careers exam given to elementary and middle school students and the Scholastic Achievement Test, or SAT, which is taken by high school juniors.

ELEMENTARY/MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL

READING MATH READING 60% 60%

Hononegah
These
80% 80%
Prairie Hill numbers
40%
Kinnikinnick represent the 36% 37%

Illinois
Prairie Hill percentage 32%30%

Harlem
60% Rockton 60% 29%
Rockton 26%28% 25%
of students 22%

Belvidere
Shirland Kinnikinnick

Rockford

Freeport
that scored
Illinois Shirland
40% 40% above a 540
Harlem Illinois
Harlem in reading on
Belvidere
Belvidere the SAT. 2016-2017 2017-2018
20% Rockford 20% Rockford MATH
Freeport Freeport 58%
These 54%
numbers
0 0
2014- 2015- 2016- 2017- 2014- 2015- 2016- 2017- represent the 37%
34%
2015 2016 2017 2018 2015 2016 2017 2018 percentage
of students 26%27% 26%
21% 19%
These numbers represent the percentage of students that are meeting or exceeding that scored 14%
17% 15%
academic benchmarks in grades 3 through 8. Kinnikinnick, Prairie Hill, Rockton and above a 540
Shirland are elementary and middle school districts whose 4,155 students feed into in math on
Hononegah High School, which is a single-school district. the SAT. 2016-2017 2017-2018

Source: 2018 Illinois Report Card, containing results from the 2017-2018 school year GATEHOUSE MEDIA