Summary:
Louisville, Illinois, has two schools in this set, serving preschool through grade 8 and grades 9–12, with 557 students combined. The North Clay Elementary/Junior High School enrolls 379 students and the North Clay Community High School enrolls 178. The most important finding for families is that the elementary/junior high’s near-statewide overall ELA result conceals a wide grade-to-grade range: 57% overall, but from 40% in seventh grade to 81% in fifth grade, a 41-point spread.
The elementary/junior high stands out for its fifth-grade ELA result: 81% proficient, 26 percentage points above the state’s 55%; its fifth- and eighth-grade science results were also above state results by 6 and 4 points. But its seventh-grade ELA result was 18 points below the state. The high school’s reported 2025–26 results were all below state benchmarks, with its largest gap in tenth-grade ELA: 33% versus 54%, or 21 points below. SchoolDigger ranks the elementary/junior high at the 50th percentile with 2 stars, compared with the high school at the 25th percentile with 1 star. These are different grade levels and tests, so the schools cannot be ranked directly by test scores.
Results have improved in several areas, though not uniformly. The elementary/junior high’s all-grades ELA rose 14 points, from 43% to 57%, and math rose 5 points, from 32% to 37%; fifth- and eighth-grade science increased 29 and 28 points, respectively, and finished above state results. At the high school, eleventh-grade ACT science rose 14 points and tenth-grade PreACT science rose 15, while ninth-grade PreACT ELA fell 9 points. Chronic absenteeism was 10% at the elementary/junior high and 21% at the high school, compared with 24% statewide. Both schools had similar student–teacher ratios in 2024–25: 11.1 and 11.0. Both report free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25: 37% at the elementary/junior high and 44% at the high school; these are context measures, not explanations for school results.
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