Schools in Dix, IL

Dix, Illinois, has one listed school, Rome Community Cons Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8, with 286 students; there is no local school-to-school comparison. In 2025–26, its all-grades ELA result was 64%, compared with 56% statewide, a 7-point advantage, while math was 33% versus 40%, a 7-point shortfall. Chronic absenteeism was 17%, 6 points below the state rate of 24%. The most important finding is the clear subject split: ELA is a relative strength, while overall math trails the state.

Since it is the only school in the list, Rome cannot be ranked against other local schools; its strongest grade-level comparisons are in ELA, where it exceeded state results in five of six grades. Its advantages were 15 points in grades 3 and 7 and 12 points in grade 8, while grade 4 was 2 points below the state. The clearest shortfall among the reported grade-level results was grade 5 science, 6 points below the state; grade 8 science was 2 points below. Math results varied by grade: Rome was 10 points above the state in grade 3 and 12 points above in grade 8, but 2 points below in grade 7. Math results for grades 4, 5 and 6 are unknown because the state suppressed them.

Results over time are mixed: all-grades ELA rose from 59% in 2024–25 to 64% in 2025–26, while its advantage over the state widened by 1 point. Math fell from 34% to 33% as the state improved, widening Rome’s shortfall by 2 points. Science also shifted from above the state in both tested grades in 2024–25 to below it in 2025–26. SchoolDigger gives Rome three stars and a 54th-percentile statewide ranking for 2025–26; its percentile declined by 8 points from 2023–24. For context, the 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 12.3, and 47% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible.