Similar nearby schools
Most similar nearby schools
Unity High School → Clinton High School → Argenta-Oreana High School → Maroa-Forsyth Senior High Sch → St Joseph-Ogden High School → Mahomet-Seymour High School → Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond → Tuscola High School →📋 At a glance
- 📚 4 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 2 calculus classes · 1 physics · 6 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 66th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 80th percentile by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Monticello High School compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 66th 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: Unity High School, Clinton High School, Argenta-Oreana 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
66th 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 · 2020-2180th 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.
🏛️ 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.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
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 +0.4%/year, projecting from 2024's 489 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $19,379 per student in district revenue, the 9 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $174,411/year in additional funding.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unity High School Tolono |
Public | 17.2 | 480 | -7.2% |
| Clinton High School Clinton |
Public | 23.2 | 514 | +2.2% |
| Argenta-Oreana High School Argenta |
Public | 13.3 | 268 | -1.5% |
| Maroa-Forsyth Senior High Sch Maroa |
Public | 20.7 | 348 | -0.6% |
| St Joseph-Ogden High School Saint Joseph |
Public | 28.8 | 457 | +3.6% |
| Mahomet-Seymour High School Mahomet |
Public | 15.2 | 1,050 | +2.1% |
| Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond Arthur |
Public | 22.1 | 310 | -0.3% |
| Tuscola High School Tuscola |
Public | 22.1 | 299 | +4.9% |