Summary:
Fox River Grove, Illinois, has two public schools spanning prekindergarten through grade 8: Algonquin Road Elementary School serves prekindergarten through grade 4, and Fox River Grove Middle School serves grades 5–8. In 2025–26, both schools were above the state average in all-grades English language arts (ELA), but their math results diverged sharply. The central finding is that Algonquin Road was 23 points above the state in math, while Fox River Grove Middle was 11 points below.
The schools stand out in different subjects: in all-grades ELA, Fox River Grove Middle scored 66%, compared with 62% at Algonquin Road; both exceeded the 56% state result. In math, Algonquin Road scored 63%, versus 28% at the middle school and 40% statewide—a 35-point difference between the schools. Grade-level results add important context: the elementary school was above the state in both subjects in grades 3 and 4, while middle-school ELA was especially strong in grades 5 and 6. Grade 8 was a clear exception: its ELA result was 35%, 28 points below the state, and its science result was 21%, 31 points below.
Both schools improved in ELA from 2024–25 to 2025–26, with increases of 2 points at Algonquin Road and 9 points at Fox River Grove Middle. Math moved in opposite directions: up 9 points at the elementary school and down 6 at the middle school. SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 statewide rankings place Algonquin Road at the 71st percentile with 4 stars and Fox River Grove Middle at the 42nd percentile with 2 stars. The middle school had a lower student-teacher ratio (11.2 versus 13.2), while the 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 21% and 24%, respectively. These all-grades comparisons are not like-for-like because the schools serve different grades.
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