That's according to a Kankakee Times analysis of 2022 test score data compiled by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).
ISBE reports that last year, 79.1 percent of Kankakee County's 1,172 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.
Kankakee High School (92.9 percent), Momence High School (86.8 percent), and St. Anne Community High School (85.5 percent) had the highest failure rates in Kankakee County. Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School (74.1 percent) and Herscher High School (59.7 percent) had the lowest.
No Kankakee County high schools had a passing rate of more than 50 percent of students.
County-wide, Math test failure rates fell from 82.2 percent in 2019 to 79.1 percent in 2022.
The failure rate increased at one Kankakee County high schools in 2022, with the most significant increase happening at Grant Park High School (79.1 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).
Herscher High School and Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School were the only Kankakee 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.”
| High School | # of Students | Failing % in 2019 | Failing % in 2021 | Failing % in 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kankakee High School | 297 | 93.2% | 93.4% | 92.9% |
| Momence High School | 76 | 86.9% | 89.8% | 86.8% |
| St. Anne Community High School | 48 | 86% | 95.6% | 85.5% |
| Grant Park High School | 48 | 76.6% | 88% | 79.1% |
| Manteno High School | 165 | 79.6% | 75.5% | 75.1% |
| Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School | 424 | 79.4% | 84.9% | 74.1% |
| Herscher High School | 114 | 68% | 64.3% | 59.7% |
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