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Best Public Schools in Akin, IL


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5-star school
Top rankedAkin Community Cons Elementary School74th of 1,737 Illinois elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Akin Community Cons Elementary School up 255 spots statewide this year
Summary:

Akin has one listed school, Akin Community Cons Elementary School, serving kindergarten through eighth grade, with 124 students enrolled. Because it is the only listed school, there is no local school-to-school comparison or meaningful top-to-bottom ranking. The most important finding is that the school’s latest all-grade results were above state proficiency in both subjects: 73% in ELA versus 56% statewide, and 52% in math versus 40%.

The school’s standout results include especially strong third-grade scores: 94% in ELA, 46 points above the state, and 88% in math, 39 points above. Sixth-grade ELA was also above the state, at 80% versus 59%, a 21-point advantage. Chronic absenteeism was lower than the state rate as well: 17% at the school compared with 24% statewide, or 6 points lower.

Recent results moved in different directions: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA proficiency rose 4 points at the school, while its lead over the state grew by 1 point; math proficiency fell 5 points, and its lead narrowed by 7 points. SchoolDigger’s listing improved from 329th of 2,056 schools and the 84th percentile in 2024–2025 to 74th of 1,737 and the 96th percentile in 2025–2026; it assigns the school five stars in the latest listing. Other context includes a student-teacher ratio of 10.8 in 2024–2025 and 55% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch that year.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education.

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