Summary:
The Cary, Illinois, school list includes six schools serving children from early childhood through grade 12: four elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. The clearest apples-to-apples comparison is among the three elementary schools: all are above the state in all-grades math, with an average of 53% versus 40% statewide, a 14-point advantage; their average ELA result is 64% versus 56%, an 8-point advantage. The strongest shared elementary-school result is math.
Three Oaks School leads elementary ELA at 66%, ahead of Deer Path Elementary School at 64% and Briargate Elementary School at 62%. Deer Path leads all-grades math at 56%—6 points above Three Oaks and 3 above Briargate. Three Oaks also leads fifth-grade ELA, math and science, but its fourth-grade math is 38%, 4 points below the state and well behind Deer Path’s 63%. At the secondary level, Cary-Grove Community High School is above state ACT proficiency by 12 points in ELA, 13 in math and 17 in science. Cary Junior High School has a sharper grade-level split: sixth-grade math is 9 points above the state, while eighth-grade math is 11 points below.
Elementary results generally improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the three-school average rose 3 points in ELA and 2 in math, though Briargate’s math fell 4 points and its fifth-grade science fell 10. Cary-Grove’s ACT results declined year over year but remained well above state results. SchoolDigger ranks Cary-Grove at the 85th percentile statewide, compared with the junior high at the 51st; among the elementary schools, Deer Path is at the 67th percentile, Three Oaks at the 64th and Briargate at the 61st. As context, the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 33% at Three Oaks, 26% at Deer Path and 23% at Briargate; these figures do not explain test results. Oak Knoll Early Childhood Center has no test-score results in the supplied data.
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