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Best Public Schools in Alpha, IL

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At a glance

School

172

Students

Top rankedAlWood Elementary School728^th of 1,737 Illinois elementary schools

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Biggest riser

AlWood Elementary School up 57 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

Alpha, Illinois, has one listed elementary school, AlWood Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 and enrolling 172 students. With no other listed schools, families have no local school-to-school comparison in this data. The clearest overall result is that AlWood was above Illinois in both all-grades subjects in 2025–2026: 59% in English language arts (ELA) versus 56% statewide, and 42% in mathematics versus 40%.

AlWood is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this one-school list. Its grade-level results show a stronger profile in ELA and grade 3 mathematics, but a weakness in grade 4 mathematics: grade 3 ELA was 65%, 18 points above the state; grade 4 ELA was 66%, 10 points above; and grade 3 mathematics was 58%, 9 points above. Grade 4 mathematics was 35%, 8 points below Illinois.

AlWood remains ahead of the state, but its lead narrowed from the prior year. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, its ELA score rose from 58% to 59%, while mathematics fell from 43% to 42%; meanwhile, its state-comparison gaps narrowed from about 5 points in each subject to about 3 points. SchoolDigger rated the school 3 stars and ranked it 728th of 1,737 schools, at the 58th percentile, for 2025–2026; its percentile was 51 in 2023–2024 and 62 in 2024–2025. Context figures include a student–teacher ratio of 8.9 and 43% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. AlWood’s grade 5 science result was 44% in 2024–2025, above the state’s 41%, but the 2025–2026 fifth-grade results are suppressed; as the only listed school, it also has no peer-school comparisons.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				ISA Science (2026)	IAR English Language Arts (2026)				IAR Mathematics (2026)				Vaccination (2025-26)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2026)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	ISA Science 5th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 3rd Grade	IAR English Language Arts 4th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 5th Grade	IAR English Language Arts All Grades	IAR Mathematics 3rd Grade	IAR Mathematics 4th Grade	IAR Mathematics 5th Grade	IAR Mathematics All Grades	Vaccination: Measles protection (all grades)	Vaccination: Exemption rate	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
AlWood Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	101 E A St	Alpha	61413	Henry County	AlWood CUSD 225	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(309) 629-5011	172	19	8.9	43.0%	163 (94.8%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.6%)	7 (4.1%)	56.3	728^th of 1737 public elementary schools	58.1%		60.9	785^th of 2056 public elementary schools	61.8%	57		65.4	65.5		59.2	57.7	34.5		42.1	93.5%		$16,998	$1,370	$15,628

Cities Near Alpha

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Woodhull	3.31 mi	1	447^th
Viola	10.65 mi	1	391^st
Orion	11.01 mi	3	113^th
Oneida	11.28 mi	3	298^th
Sherrard	11.3 mi	3	415^th

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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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