Summary:
Lacon’s supplied school list contains one public school, Midland Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through fourth grade and enrolling 249 students in the Midland CUSD 7 district. There is no other listed Lacon school to compare with, so the clearest benchmarks are Illinois results and Midland’s own results over time. The most important finding is that Midland remains above the state in math, but its advantage shrank, while its ELA result is below the state.
In 2025–2026, Midland’s all-grades math proficiency was 45%, about 6 percentage points above Illinois at 40%; its ELA proficiency was 52%, about 4 points below the state at 56%. The grade-level picture is mixed: fourth graders were above the state in both subjects—by 1 point in ELA and 5 points in math—while third graders were below in both, by 2 points in ELA and 6 points in math. Midland also had lower chronic absenteeism than the district and state in 2025–2026: 11%, compared with 20% in the district and 24% statewide. With only one school listed, Midland is both the highest and lowest by default; these figures do not provide a meaningful school-to-school ranking.
Results shifted differently by subject. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Midland’s math proficiency fell from 56% to 45%, while the state rose from 39% to 40%, reducing Midland’s lead from 18 points to 6. ELA rose slightly at Midland, from 52% to 52%, but the state increased from 53% to 56%, widening the school’s shortfall. SchoolDigger ranked Midland at the 64th percentile with 3 stars in 2024–2025 and the 43rd percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026. As context, 43% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025; no student–teacher ratio was reported. These measures describe the school but do not explain its test results.
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