Mahomet-Seymour High School has found its place on the 2019 list of U.S. News and World Report annual report of The Best High Schools.
Based on data from The Common Core of Data, The College Board and the International Baccalaureate, U.S. News worked with RTI International to look at six factors to compile the rankings: college readiness (participation and performance on Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) exams), reading and math proficiency, reading and math performance, underserved student performance, college curriculum breadth and graduation rates.
Pulling data from statistics taken in 2016-2017, Mahomet-Seymour earned the second highest rating in downstate Illinois, ranked 56th in the state and at 1,262 out of 17,245 high schools in the nation.
According to the U.S. News Scorecard, there were 958 students in Mahomet-Seymour High School in 2016-2017. Forty-three-percent of the graduating senior class took at least one AP exam and 31 percent of those students passed at least one AP Exam.
Sixty-five percent of students who took state-required tests were proficient in math, and 63 percent were proficient readers. Based on the students who entered Mahomet-Seymour in 2012-2013 and graduated in 2016-2017, there was a 92-percent graduation rate.
Last year, Mahomet-Seymour was ranked 32nd in Illinois and was the first-ranked high school in downstate. Previous U.S. News data looked at the AP and IB exams to accumulate ranking. In 2017, M-S was ranked 60th in the state based on the same standards.
