Summary:
Barry, Illinois, has two listed schools serving grades K–12: Western Barry Elementary enrolls 225 students, and Western High School enrolls 141, for 366 students combined. The strongest overall signal is improvement: 10 of 11 comparable school-to-state score gaps moved in a favorable direction from 2024–25 to 2025–26.
Both schools have notable strengths, but the strongest results depend on grade and subject. In 2025–26, Western Barry Elementary was above the state in all-grades IAR ELA, 64% versus 56% (+8 percentage points), and math, 45% versus 40% (+6 points); its third-grade math result was especially strong at 69% versus 49% (+20 points). At Western High School, 11th-grade ACT ELA and science were 14 and 12 points above the state, respectively. Weaker results were concentrated in particular grades: elementary fourth-grade math was 32% versus 42% (11 points below the state), while high-school ninth-grade PreACT ELA was 52% versus 62% (9 points below) and 10th-grade PreACT math was 29% versus 36% (8 points below).
SchoolDigger rankings also rose, especially at the high school: Western High School moved from the 26th percentile in 2023–24 to the 64th in 2025–26, while Western Barry Elementary edged up from the 57th to the 58th percentile. Student-teacher ratios in 2024–25 were 10.6 at the high school and 12.3 at the elementary school. Both schools had nearly identical free/reduced lunch eligible rates that year: 61.7% and 61.8%, respectively. In 2025–26, chronic absenteeism was lower at the elementary school, 19% versus 26% at the high school. The schools serve different grades and their results are not a direct school-to-school comparison.
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