Best Public Schools in Lansing, IL

Lansing has eight schools—five elementary, two middle and one high school—serving students from primary school through high school across three districts. Test-score data are available for seven schools; Lester Crawl Primary Center has no test-score entries. The clearest area-wide finding is that reported math proficiency is below the state level at every grade, while ELA results vary considerably by school and grade.

Some grade-level ELA results stand out. Heritage Middle School scored 61% in seventh-grade ELA, 3 percentage points above the state, and 75% in eighth grade, 12 points above. Reavis Elementary School led fifth-grade ELA at 67%, 12 points above the state and 34 points above Heritage’s 33%. The lowest results differ by grade: for example, Nathan Hale Elementary School had the lowest third-grade ELA result, at 22% versus 48% statewide. Math is a shared challenge: Reavis had the strongest fifth-grade result, but its 28% was still 8 points below the state’s 36%. At the high school, Thornton Fractnl So High School had a 93% graduation rate, above the state’s 90%, while ACT proficiency was lower than the state in all three subjects.

Recent IAR averages show the gap with the state widening: among six schools with results in both years, the average ELA gap grew from 11 to 13 percentage points between 2024–25 and 2025–26, and the math gap from 17 to 19 points. SchoolDigger ranking percentiles also fell from 2023–24 to 2025–26 for all seven schools with histories; Reavis moved from the 48th to the 26th percentile, while Nathan Hale went from the 23rd to the 5th. Reavis’s student-teacher ratio is 13.4, compared with 16.1 at Oak Glen Elementary School and 18.3 at Coolidge Elementary School; all three report that all students receive free meals (Community Eligibility) in sy 2024–2025. These figures offer context, but do not establish why results differ.