Summary:
Georgetown, Illinois, has three schools serving preschool through grade 12: Pine Crest Elementary School (PK–5), Mary Miller Junior High School (6–8) and Georgetown-Ridge Farm High School (9–12); enrollment ranges from 192 to 429. Results vary considerably across the area, but the clearest concern is Pine Crest’s IAR performance: its all-grades ELA and math results were each about 24 points below state results.
Mary Miller stands out for ELA: its all-grades result was within 1 point of the state, and its 7th- and 8th-grade scores were 1 and 4 points above their state results. Its math result, however, was 18 points below the state. At Pine Crest, all-grades ELA was 32% versus 56% statewide, and math was 16% versus 40%; 3rd-grade math was 17%, 32 points below the state. The high school was below state results in every listed test, with its largest gap in 11th-grade ACT science: 21% versus 48%, a 27-point difference.
Recent changes are mixed, but across 15 matched results the average school-to-state gap widened by 2 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while school scores fell by an average of 1 point. Mary Miller improved in all-grades ELA and math, while Pine Crest declined in both. SchoolDigger ranked Mary Miller at the 36th percentile in 2025–2026, compared with the high school at the 20th and Pine Crest at the 6th; all three rankings were lower than in 2023–2024. Pine Crest has the highest student-teacher ratio (13.4), while the high school has the lowest (11.2). For 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 79% at Pine Crest, 70% at Mary Miller and 66% at the high school. Chronic absenteeism was 17% at Mary Miller, 26% at Pine Crest and 24% at the high school; the high school’s graduation rate was 79%, compared with 90% statewide.
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