Summary:
The city of Creston, Illinois is home to a single standout school, Creston Elementary School, which serves grades K-8 and has an enrollment of 80 students. The school is part of the Creston CCSD 161 school district, which is ranked 193 out of 811 districts in Illinois and has a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Creston Elementary School consistently outperforms the state averages in both English Language Arts and Mathematics on the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) exams, with 66% of students proficient or better in ELA and 70.2% in Mathematics, compared to state averages of 53.1% and 38.5%, respectively. The school also excels in science, with 8th-grade students achieving a 70% proficiency rate on the Illinois Science Assessment (ISA), significantly higher than the state average of 45.4%. These strong academic results are likely attributed to the school's low student-teacher ratio of 7.7 and its relatively high spending of $16,527 per student.
While Creston Elementary School's performance is commendable, the data also highlights the need to monitor and address potential equity concerns, as the school has a relatively high free/reduced lunch rate of 50%, indicating a need to ensure that economically disadvantaged students have equal access to the school's high-quality education.
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