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Warsaw Sr High School → Unity High School → Illini West High School → ROYALS Academy Carthage → ROYALS RSSP Carthage → Central High School → West Prairie Senior High School → Southeastern Jr/Sr High School →📋 At a glance
- 📚 4 AP courses offered — Strong
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 1 physics · 1 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 56th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 33% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Hamilton High School compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 56th percentile nationally with 4 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyIL sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Warsaw Sr High School, Unity High School, Illini West High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
56th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 33% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $14,355/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +10.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 193 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warsaw Sr High School Warsaw |
Public | 5.3 | 185 | -17.0% |
| Unity High School Mendon |
Public | 21.4 | 176 | -1.1% |
| Illini West High School Carthage |
Public | 11.2 | 349 | +2.3% |
| ROYALS Academy Carthage Carthage |
Public | 11.0 | — | — |
| ROYALS RSSP Carthage Carthage |
Public | 11.0 | — | — |
| Central High School Camp Point |
Public | 28.3 | 220 | -12.0% |
| West Prairie Senior High School Colchester |
Public | 29.1 | 170 | +6.2% |
| Southeastern Jr/Sr High School Augusta |
Public | 23.7 | 124 | -12.1% |