Mahomet-Seymour High School is ranked #63 on the 2022 U.S. News and World Report Best Illinois High Schools list.
In 2018, Mahomet-Seymour was ranked 32 in the state and 1299 out of 20,548 high schools in the nation, earning a Silver Medal. In 2021 the Bulldogs were ranked 1,235 out of nearly 24,000 public high schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia and 53rd in the state of Illinois. Today, the top 100 ranking also places Mahomet-Seymour at #1,350 of 17,843 high schools within the United States.
Both public and charter school are part of the rankings. Private schools are not included in the rankings because in almost all cases, students are not required to take the statewide accountability tests that are mandatory for U.S. public high schools.
The 2022 rankings, which were based on data from the 2016-2017, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 school year and graduation rates from 2019-2020, looked at six factors: college readiness, reading and math proficiency, reading and math performance, underserved student performance, college curriculum breadth and graduation rates. College readiness specifically measures participation and performance on Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams, and underserved student performance focuses on students who are Black, Hispanic, or from low-income households.
For the first time, science proficiency and performance data from 2018-2019 was also incorporated into the methodology for states where science assessment data was available.
There were 937 students in Mahomet-Seymour High School in 2019-2020 and 38 percent of the students took AP exams. That percentage is down from 2015 when 43-percent of the student population took AP exams. Thirty-five percent of those who took the AP exam passed at least one.
With a 94-percent graduation rate, 65-percent were proficient in math and 59-percent were proficient in reading.
Mahomet-Seymour was ranked #1 in Champaign County. Central High School was #2 in the areafollowed by Champaign Centennial, Monticello, St. Joseph-Ogden, Urbana, Unity, Fisher then Heritage. Uni-High was not ranked due to inadequate data.
