Best Public Schools in Cisne, IL

Cisne, Illinois, has two listed schools in North Wayne CUSD 200: Cisne Middle School serves grades 5–8 and Cisne High School serves grades 9–12; no elementary school is included in this list. The clearest standout is the middle school’s latest performance: its all-grades ELA proficiency was 70%, compared with 56% statewide, and seventh-grade math was 72%, compared with 40% statewide.

Cisne Middle School stands out most positively in the 2025–2026 results: its all-grades math proficiency was also above the state, 42% versus 40%, though by a smaller 2 points. Cisne High School has a more mixed profile: tenth-grade ELA was 55%, 1 point above the state, and ninth-grade ELA matched the state at 62%; ninth-grade science was 39%, 9 points below. Its graduation rate was 91%, compared with 90% statewide. So the clearest low point among the highlighted results is high-school science, rather than the high school’s overall performance.

The middle school’s results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose 9 points and math rose 10, while statewide gains were 3 and 1 points, respectively. The high school’s SchoolDigger ranking percentile also rose, from the 48th to the 55th percentile; the middle school rose from the 63rd to the 71st percentile. These are rankings within each school’s own category. For context, 2024–2025 student-teacher ratios were 10.7 at the middle school and 7.2 at the high school. Both report the same low-income measure, free/reduced lunch eligible (FRL), for 2024–2025: 41% at the middle school and 44% at the high school. Chronic absenteeism was low at both schools in 2025–2026—6% and 7%, respectively—compared with 24% statewide.