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Rockford East High School → Harlem High School → Guilford High School → Jefferson High School → Hononegah CHD High School → Roosevelt Center → Belvidere North High Sch → Winnebago Co Detention Center →📋 At a glance
- 📚 9 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 6 calculus classes · 34 physics · 53 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 70th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 84th percentile by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Auburn High School compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 70th percentile nationally with 9 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: Rockford East High School, Harlem High School, Guilford High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
70th percentile nationally
✅ Gifted/talented program
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 · 2020-2184th percentile 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.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -2.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,957 students:
≈ 189 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $19,071 per student in district revenue, the 189 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $3,604,419/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockford East High School Rockford |
Public | 4.9 | 1,719 | -0.6% |
| Harlem High School Machesney Park |
Public | 7.4 | 1,884 | -4.2% |
| Guilford High School Rockford |
Public | 6.7 | 2,216 | +10.3% |
| Jefferson High School Rockford |
Public | 7.5 | 2,173 | +2.9% |
| Hononegah CHD High School Rockton |
Public | 12.2 | 1,814 | -6.5% |
| Roosevelt Center Rockford |
Public | 2.3 | — | — |
| Belvidere North High Sch Belvidere |
Public | 14.1 | 1,354 | -5.6% |
| Winnebago Co Detention Center Rockford |
Public | 4.9 | — | — |