Summary:
New Boston, Illinois, has one listed school, New Boston Elementary School, serving kindergarten through grade 5, so families have no other local school in this data to compare it with. Its strongest result is grade 5 science: 75% of students were proficient in 2025–26, 28 points above the Illinois result of 48%.
The school’s results are mixed across subjects: grade 5 science stands out, while all-grades ELA and math fall below state results. In 2025–26, 49% were proficient in all-grades ELA, 7 points below the state, and 31% in math, 9 points below. The reported grade-level ELA results were stronger: grade 4 reached 63%, 7 points above the state, and grade 5 reached 68%, 13 points above. Grade 5 math was close to the state result, at 35.7% versus 36.2%, a difference of 0.5 points. These figures show strengths within the school, but no local school-to-school ranking is possible.
Over the two years reported, science improved while all-grades ELA and math declined: grade 5 science rose 21 points, from 54% in 2024–25, while ELA fell 6 points and math fell 1 point. The school’s science lead over the state grew from 14 to 28 points; its ELA comparison shifted from 2 points above the state to 7 below, and its math gap widened from 6 to 9 points below. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking increased from 54 in 2023–24 to 65 in 2025–26; its latest listing is rank 601 of 1,737 with three stars. Context measures include 165 students, a 7.9 student–teacher ratio and 63% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. Chronic absenteeism was 27% in 2025–26, 3 points above the state and 1 point below the district.
Thank you for your feedback!