Joliet Central High School
Joliet, IL · High School · Grades 9-12
Joliet Central High School is a high school in Joliet, IL with 3,377 students enrolled and a 33% proficiency rate. Part of Joliet Twp HSD 204. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Joliet Central High School is a high school located in Joliet, Illinois. The school serves 3,377 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.4:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 33% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 73% graduation rate.
75% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating the school serves a predominantly low-income community.
Joliet Central High School is part of the Joliet Twp HSD 204 in Illinois. The school receives Title I federal funding.
How This School Compares
Joliet Central High School has 3,377 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Joliet Twp HSD 204 (3,459 students). Its 33% proficiency rate is 3 percentage points below the district average of 36%. Compared to the Illinois state average of 48%, the school performs 15 points lower.
Frequently Asked Questions
Joliet Central High School has 3,377 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.4:1.
According to EDFacts data, 33% of students at Joliet Central High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Joliet Central High School has a 73% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Joliet Central High School is part of the Joliet Twp HSD 204 in Joliet, Illinois. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.