Summary:
Maple Park, Illinois, has three listed schools serving grades K–12: Lily Lake Grade School (K–5), Kaneland IgKnight Academy (3–8), and Kaneland Senior High School (9–12). Together, they offer elementary, middle-grade, and high-school options, with the strongest latest elementary results at Lily Lake. The most important finding is that Lily Lake’s 2025–2026 proficiency rates were well above state results in every reported subject, including fifth-grade science by 28 percentage points.
Lily Lake Grade School stands out in its latest results: it exceeded the state by 19 percentage points in all-grades ELA and 25 points in math, with grade-by-grade advantages ranging from 20 to 26 points in ELA and 20 to 26 points in math. Kaneland Senior High School was also above the state in all supplied 2025–2026 tests, though its 11th-grade ACT advantages were smaller: 3 points in ELA, 6 in math, and 9 in science. Kaneland IgKnight Academy had stronger results in some grades than others: its ELA advantage ranged from 18 points in fifth grade to 1 point in seventh, and sixth-grade math was 7 points below the state. In the only direct same-grade, same-year school comparison, Lily Lake’s fifth-grade science result was 14 points above IgKnight’s.
Results over time were mixed. Lily Lake’s all-grades ELA and math scores changed little from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while fifth-grade science rose 8 points. Kaneland Senior High’s 11th-grade ACT scores fell by 7 points in ELA, 2 in math, and 1 in science, but remained above state results. SchoolDigger ranked Lily Lake at the 87th percentile, Kaneland Senior High at the 75th, and IgKnight at the 65th in their respective latest ranking years. Student-teacher ratios were 14.8 at Lily Lake, 13.2 at Kaneland Senior High, and 10.8 at IgKnight. As context, free/reduced lunch eligibility was 24% at Lily Lake in 2024–2025 and 17% at Kaneland Senior High in 2021–2022; no measure was reported for IgKnight. The schools’ grade spans and test years differ, so the results do not establish one overall school ranking.
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