Best Public Schools in Assumption, IL

Assumption, Illinois, has two listed schools serving different age groups: Central A & M Middle School serves grades 6–8, while Bond Primary serves PK–1; together they enroll 331 students. Only Central A & M has test scores in the supplied data, so achievement cannot be compared between the two schools. The clearest achievement finding is that Central A & M’s ELA result was strong compared with the state, while its math result remained below the state.

Central A & M Middle School stands out for 2025–2026 ELA: 72% of students were proficient, 16 percentage points above the state’s 56%; its math result was a relative weakness, at 30% versus 40% statewide, 10 points lower. Eighth-grade science was 47%, 5 points below the state’s 52%. On attendance, Bond Primary stands out with chronic absenteeism of 7%, compared with 21% at Central A & M and 24% statewide. These are different measures, and the available scores do not support naming either school the overall achievement leader.

Central A & M’s scores improved substantially from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose 26 points, from 46% to 72%, while the state rose 3 points; math increased 17 points, from 13% to 30%, and science rose 22 points, from 25% to 47%. ELA moved from 7 points below the state to 16 points above, while math and science deficits narrowed but remained. Grade patterns may help put those results in context: ELA was above the state in all three grades, while math was essentially level in sixth grade (36% at both school and state) and below the state in seventh and eighth. The schools’ reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures were similar in 2024–2025: 45% at Central A & M and 42% at Bond Primary. Their student-teacher ratios that year were 12.6 and 14, respectively.