Brighton, IL schools
Brighton’s public schools score close to Illinois’s averages: 31% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 92% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend Brighton North Primary School through grade 2, then Shipman Elem School, Southwestern Middle School and Southwestern High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Brighton’s School Grade: B
The public schools Brighton’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 60% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Illinois’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2018.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Illinois only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Illinois with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Brighton kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Close to the state in reading
92% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #230 of 635 IL towns →
The district serving Brighton
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Brighton
There’s no college in Brighton, but 19 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, 8.4 miles away.
9 more within 30 miles.
Straight-line distance from the center of Brighton. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 1 school in Brighton
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Brighton kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Brighton’s district that are located in Shipman and Piasa.