High · Illinois
Porta High School
Porta High School, a public high school in Petersburg, Illinois: grades 7–12, 411 students, 12.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Porta CUSD 202.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 411
- Teachers (FTE)
- 32.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.8
- Grades
- 7–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 59% of high schools in Illinois
Median 13.5 · 694 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 62% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 52% of high schools in Illinois
Median 431 · 708 schools compared
Larger than 50% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Illinois's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Illinois: 53%33%proficient
New test or proficiency bar this year: not comparable with the year before.
A lower share proficient than 62% of high schools in Illinois
Median 44% · 29 high schools compared
72 students tested, grades 8 · IAR; proficient means Levels 3-4 Approximate: the state published a range or left out some grades.
Math
Illinois: 39%20%proficient
New test or proficiency bar this year: not comparable with the year before.
A higher share proficient than 53% of high schools in Illinois
Median 19% · 40 high schools compared
127 students tested, grades 7, 8 · IAR; proficient means Levels 3-4 Approximate: the state published a range or left out some grades.
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 7–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Distant rural area
- Run by
- Porta CUSD 202
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Porta CUSD 202.
Location
- Address
- 17651 Bluejay Rd, Petersburg, IL 62675
- Phone
- (217)632-3216
- County
- Menard County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6–12 | 107 | 8.9 | |
| 9–12 | 299 | 13.4 | |
| 9–12 | 416 | 13.4 | |
| 9–12 | 96 | 12.4 | |
Illini Central High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 172 | 8.2 |
| 9–12 | 462 | 14.0 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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