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The Illinois School Report Card is a measurement of school performance administered by the Illinois State Board of Education.Each public school district in Illinois, including special charter districts, must submit to parents, taxpayers, the Governor, the General Assembly and the State Board of Education a school report card assessing the performance of its schools and students.
In state competition, Maine South competes in the largest potential school classes in each sport sponsored by the Illinois High School Association. The following teams have won IHSA sponsored State Championship Tournaments: [37] Basketball (boys): 1978–79; Football: 1995–96, 2000–01, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2016–17
The Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) measured individual student achievement based on the Illinois Learning Standards. The results of this score were applied to the No Child Left Behind Act, to identify failing schools. The ISAT was retired as a state assessment tool. The ISAT was last administered in the 2013–2014 school year. [1]
One district increased in rankings, while some others struggled.
Rich East High School or REHS was a public four-year high school located in Park Forest, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago in the United States. Rich East's campus serves the cities of Park Forest, Matteson, Olympia Fields, Chicago Heights and Richton Park serving sections of school districts 162 and 163.
The NCHS Science Olympiad Team, founded in 2004, ranked third in the state in 2005 and 2006 and second in state in 2007 and 2008(thus advancing to the national tournament). [35] The Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering Team won the State Championship in 2006, ending rival Naperville North's multiple-year winning streak. [ 36 ]
In 2014 and 2016, Argo was awarded a bronze medal by U.S. News & World Report for outstanding academic performance, the only school in the South Suburban Conference to receive such recognition. [ 4 ] On March 11, 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders held a campaign rally at Argo that was attended by several thousand people.
The Prairie State Achievement Examination (PSAE) was a two-day standardized test taken by all high school Juniors in the U.S. state of Illinois. On the first day, students take the ACT , and on the second day, a WorkKeys examination and Illinois State Board of Education -developed science examination. [ 1 ]