Schools in Metamora, IL

Metamora, Illinois, has two listed public schools serving PK–12: Metamora Grade School (PK–8, 829 students) and Metamora High School (grades 9–12, 896 students). Both schools’ reported 2025–26 test results are above the state results for the same subject, grade, test and year. The strongest overall takeaway is that neither school has a supplied test result below its state comparison.

Metamora Grade School stands out for several large state advantages: grade 5 science was 77% proficient versus 48% statewide, a 30-point lead, and grade 6 ELA was 87% versus 59%, a 28-point lead. Its all-grades results were also strong: 73% in ELA and 58% in math, respectively 17 and 19 points above the state. Metamora High School was above the state in every supplied result, with its largest leads in math: 20 points in both grade 10 PreACT Secure and grade 11 ACT. The relative low point among the listed results is grade 8 ELA at the grade school: 67% proficient, 4 points above the state. Because the schools serve different grades and take different tests, their scores do not support a like-for-like ranking against each other.

Results have moved in different directions by grade and subject. At the grade school, all-grades ELA rose 5 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while math was nearly unchanged; grade 8 science fell 2 points, and its state advantage narrowed from 27 to 19 points. At the high school, grade 10 PreACT ELA and math rose 4 and 5 points, while grade 9 results fell in all three subjects, including an 11-point drop in science. SchoolDigger gives both schools four stars; its 2025–26 rankings are the 86th percentile for the high school and 84th for the grade school. Their student–teacher ratios are similar (15.2 and 15.4). Both schools’ free/reduced lunch eligible measures for 2024–25 are also close: 22.1% at the high school and 21.5% at the grade school.