Summary:
Elmwood, Illinois, has three schools serving PK–12: Elmwood Elementary School (314 students), Elmwood Junior High School (100), and Elmwood High School (208). In 2025–26, Elementary and Junior High reported all-grades ELA proficiency of 72% and 75%, respectively, compared with the state’s 56%; their math results were 64% and 37%, compared with the state’s 40%. The clearest concern is Junior High math, particularly eighth grade: 27% were proficient, 8 points below the state, while seventh grade was 10 points above it.
Elmwood Elementary stands out for consistently strong results: every reported grade’s ELA and math proficiency exceeded the state, including fifth-grade science at 76%, versus 48% statewide. Elmwood Junior High combines the area’s strongest all-grades IAR ELA result, 75%, with its weakest math result, 37%; the eighth-grade math result was 27%, compared with 50% in seventh grade. Elmwood High was above its matching state results in every reported grade-and-test group, by 3 to 17 percentage points. Its graduation rate was 93%, 4 points above the state, though chronic absenteeism was 23%, close to the state’s 24%.
Recent results show gains and setbacks, rather than a uniform trend. Elementary and Junior High ELA rose 8 and 21 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26; math rose 4 points at Elementary but fell 9 at Junior High. At High School, 11th-grade ACT ELA fell 10 points year over year, while ACT math rose 4. SchoolDigger’s rankings moved up for High School, from the 75th to the 83rd percentile, and Elementary, from the 80th to the 83rd; Junior High fell from the 82nd to the 61st. Student-teacher ratios were 15.7 at Elementary, 13.7 at Junior High, and 10.1 at High School. Free/reduced lunch eligible shares in 2024–25 were 26%, 24%, and 28%, respectively—close across the three schools and not an explanation of their different results.
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