Low-Income LTHS Students Lose Ground

LA GRANGE, IL – Since 2017, standardized test scores for low-income students at Lyons Township High School have fallen.

The SAT is given to juniors across the state.

In 2017, 28 percent of the high school's low-income students met or exceeded standards on the SAT's English language arts section. For math, 27 percent met the mark.

Last school year, 19 percent of the high school's low-income juniors met state benchmarks in English language arts, while 16 percent did so in math. Those numbers are about 4 percentage points ahead of their counterparts statewide.

Schoolwide, more than half of the junior student body as a whole met standards.

Neighboring Hinsdale Central reports better numbers for its low-income students, with nearly 30 percent meeting benchmarks last year.

Both Lyons Township High School and Hinsdale Central are among the 10 percent of schools that are rated by the state as "exemplary."

Last year, 12 percent of Lyons Township High School's students were reported as coming from low-income families.

The state released numbers Wednesday on its Illinois Report Card website.

Here are the percentages of low-income juniors who met or exceeded standards on the SAT last school year:

LYONS TOWNSHIP

English language arts
2024 19%
2023 20%
2022 10%
2021 23%
2019 20%
2018 25%
2017 28%

Math
2024 16%
2023 18%
2022 12%
2021 19%
2019 23%
2018 25%
2017 27%

HINSDALE CENTRAL

English language arts
2024 29%
2023 38%
2022 45%
2021 27%
2019 30%
2018 45%
2017 45%

Math
2024 29%
2023 32%
2022 40%
2021 30%
2019 50%
2018 30%
2017 47%

HINSDALE SOUTH

English language arts
2024 17%
2023 18%
2022 20%
2021 28%
2019 26%
2018 17%
2017 26%

Math
2024 19%
2023 39%
2022 20%
2021 21%
2019 24%
2018 12%
2017 22%

YORK

English language arts
2024 23%
2023 18%
2022 20%
2021 17%
2019 23%
2018 26%
2017 25%

Math
2024 22%
2023 13%
2022 13%
2021 13%
2019 18%
2018 31%
2017 26%

STATE

English language arts
2024 15%
2023 15%
2022 13%
2021 16%
2019 18%
2018 19%
2017 21%

Math
2024 11%
2023 11%
2022 12%
2021 13%
2019 17%
2018 17%
2017 18%

Source: Illinois Report Card