Schools · Hume

Hume, IL schools

Hume’s public schools score below Illinois’s averages: 26% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 87% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend Prophetstown Elem School or Montmorency CCSD #145 or Tampico Elem School through grade 8, then Montmorency CCSD #145 or PLT Middle School and Rock Falls Township High School or Prophetstown High School.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

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Hume’s School Grade: B-

The public schools Hume’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 55% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

B-Test scoresCGraduation
Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 45%
Lower resultsHigher results
Illinois towns with similar household incomes (440)Better than 19%
Towns in Whiteside County (22)Better than 55%
High confidence. Built on 683 tested students and a graduating class of 140; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
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.
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Where Hume kids go to school

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Close to the state in reading

Reading (grades 9–12, Rock Falls Township High School District 301)32%
State average 30.7%
Reading (grades PK–8, Prophetstown-Lyndon-Tampico Community Unit School District 3)26%
State average 30.7%
Reading (grades 8, Montmorency Community Consolidated School District 145)22%
State average 30.7%
Math (grades 9–12, Rock Falls Township High School District 301)22%
State average 25.8%
Math (grades PK–8, Prophetstown-Lyndon-Tampico Community Unit School District 3)16%
State average 25.8%
Math (grades 8, Montmorency Community Consolidated School District 145)32%
State average 25.8%
Graduation · class of 2018

87% graduate on time

Graduation rate
87%
IL: 87.3%
Graduating class
140
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

Three districts serve Hume

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

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