New Athens High School
New Athens · IL · New Athens CUSD 60 · Public
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Career Center of Southern IL → Marissa Jr & Sr High School → Freeburg Community High Sch → Monroe/Randolph Red Brick Sch → Red Bud High School → Mascoutah High School → Illinois Center For Autism → Belleville High School-East →📋 At a glance
- 📚 1 AP courses offered — Moderate
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 2 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 37% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 30% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How New Athens High School compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ 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: Career Center of Southern IL, Marissa Jr & Sr High School, Freeburg Community High Sch and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Moderate — some AP / advanced course access
Bottom 37% of US high schools
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 · 2020-21Bottom 30% 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.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
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 +4.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 164 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career Center of Southern IL Red Bud |
Public | 4.8 | — | — |
| Marissa Jr & Sr High School Marissa |
Public | 7.5 | 167 | +0.0% |
| Freeburg Community High Sch Freeburg |
Public | 7.6 | 689 | -2.4% |
| Monroe/Randolph Red Brick Sch Red Bud |
Public | 10.0 | — | — |
| Red Bud High School Red Bud |
Public | 10.5 | 388 | -1.3% |
| Mascoutah High School Mascoutah |
Public | 12.5 | 1,243 | +2.6% |
| Illinois Center For Autism Fairview Heights |
Private | 13.7 | 114 | — |
| Belleville High School-East Belleville |
Public | 14.6 | 2,600 | +1.6% |