Remediation, sometimes called developmental education, is designed to help students achieve a level of college and career readiness that will enable them to succeed in core academic subjects such as reading, math, and science. Community colleges require students to take remedial courses if they are judged to need additional preparation in order to earn credit from college-level studies.

Students may be identified as needing remedial courses during high school or through college placement tests. Working with their local community colleges, some Illinois high schools are teaching college-level remedial courses to high school seniors and are seeing dramatic reductions in the number of students needing remediation at the college level.

The data used for this dashboard is sourced from the Illinois Report Card public data set. Students should only be counted once in the overall enrollment total, however, there are a few districts with enrollment discrepancies. As with any data measure, there are some limitations. (Source: Illinois Report Card, 2023)

Missing data within the dashboard can mean:

1. the data is truly missing because the school or district did not report the information, or
2. the value of the data was too small a number to report (i.e., less than 10).