Summary:
Jacksonville, Illinois, has six schools serving elementary, middle and high school grades, with 2,564 students enrolled; the school list includes four elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. The most important finding for families is that elementary results vary widely: the gap between the highest- and lowest-scoring schools is 28 points in ELA and 35 points in math.
Eisenhower Elementary School stands out academically, leading the elementary schools in 2025–2026 All Grades results with 69% in ELA and 55% in math—12 and 16 points above the state, respectively. It also led reported fifth-grade science, at 75%, 28 points above the state. At the other end, Lincoln Elementary School had the lowest elementary results: 40% in ELA and 20% in math, 16 and 20 points below the state. North Jacksonville School was a notable exception to a simple ranking: its math result was nearly at the state level, even though its ELA result was below it. Washington Elementary School led third-grade math at 58%, 9 points above the state. At the middle and high schools, eighth-grade science at Jacksonville Middle School was 2 points above the state, while Jacksonville High School’s 11th-grade ACT results were below state levels in ELA, math and science.
Recent results are mixed rather than moving in one direction: elementary ELA improved by an average of 5 points, and middle-school ELA and math rose by 8 and 5 points, respectively, from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. Elementary math fell by 2 points on average, middle-school science declined, and high-school ACT ELA and science also slipped. By contrast, Jacksonville High’s ninth- and 10th-grade PreACT results improved in all six reported subject comparisons. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 rankings placed Eisenhower at the 72nd percentile with 4 stars and Lincoln at the 17th percentile with 1 star. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares, for 2024–2025, ranged from 51% at Eisenhower to 86% at Lincoln; North Jacksonville’s student–teacher ratio was 9.8, compared with 15.6 at Eisenhower. These figures provide context, but do not explain why results differ.
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