Best Public Schools in Farmington, IL

Farmington, Illinois, has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Farmington Central Elementary School, Farmington Central Junior High School, and Farmington Central High School, with 1,269 students altogether. The clearest area-wide strength is IAR math: the elementary and junior high schools’ equal-weight average was 49% proficient in 2025–2026, compared with 40% statewide, an advantage of 9 percentage points.

The junior high stands out in ELA: 69% were proficient in 2025–2026, 13 points above the state’s 56%, with results above state in each grade. The elementary school leads in IAR math, at 50% versus 40% statewide; its grade 3 result was especially strong at 72%, 22 points above the state. The high school’s results are more mixed: grade 9 PreACT ELA was 72%, 10 points above state, while grade 11 ACT math was 33%, 7 points below. SchoolDigger’s latest statewide rankings place the junior high highest among the three at the 67th percentile, followed by the high school at the 57th and the elementary school at the 52nd.

Recent changes also differ by school and subject. Elementary ELA rose 7 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, reaching the state result, and its math advantage over state grew to 11 points. Junior-high ELA improved by 1 point but its state advantage narrowed to 13 points; grade 8 science fell 11 points year over year, though it remained 3 points above state. SchoolDigger’s rankings rose from the 37th to the 57th percentile for the high school between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026, while the elementary and junior-high rankings fell by 12 and 10 percentile points, respectively. In 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios ranged from 12.1 at the junior high to 15.8 at the elementary school; free/reduced lunch eligible figures that year ranged from 38% at the high school to 47% at the elementary school. These context figures describe differences, not reasons for score patterns; tests and grade spans also differ, so not all school results are directly comparable.