Summary:
Antioch, Illinois, has six area schools serving 3,738 students from prekindergarten through grade 12, including four elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. The strongest overall academic profile in the reported 2025–26 results belongs to Emmons Grade School, which led the five schools reporting IAR results in both all-grades English language arts (ELA) and math.
Emmons had 74% proficiency in ELA and 58% in math—about 15 and 18 percentage points above the next-highest school, respectively. At the other end, W C Petty Elementary had the lowest all-grades ELA result, at 47%, while Grass Lake Elementary had the lowest math result, at 34%. Grade-level leaders can differ: Grass Lake scored 86% in grade 8 ELA, compared with 78% at Emmons and 64% at Antioch Upper Grade School. Antioch Community High School was above state proficiency in all nine reported subject-and-grade comparisons, by 4–13 percentage points.
Across the five IAR schools, the average advantage over the state narrowed from 2024–25 to 2025–26: by about 2 points in ELA and 3 points in math. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Emmons rose from 77 to 81 between 2023–24 and 2025–26, while Petty’s fell from 63 to 36; these rankings are separate from test-score changes. In 2024–25, Emmons had 23% of students free/reduced lunch eligible, compared with 39% at Petty, but these figures are context, not an explanation of results. Their student–teacher ratios that year were 10.1 and 15.1, respectively. All-grades comparisons are descriptive because the schools serve different grade spans.
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