Summary:
Orion, Illinois, has three C R Hanna Elementary, Orion Middle, and Orion High—serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12, with enrollments of 244 to 434. The main takeaway is that all three schools have academic results above state benchmarks in important areas, with the standout result at Middle: 80% of students were proficient in all-grades ELA, 24 percentage points above the state.
Middle leads the two IAR schools in ELA, while Hanna has the stronger all-grades math result: Hanna scored 73% in ELA and 57% in math, respectively 17 and 17 points above state; Middle scored 80% in ELA and 53% in math, 24 and 14 points above state. High’s grade-11 ACT results were also strong, especially math at 62% versus 40% statewide, a 22-point advantage. Its grade-10 PreACT results were the clearest weakness: ELA was 52% versus 54% statewide, and science was 42% versus 48%, gaps of 2 and 6 points below state. These comparisons reflect different grades and tests, not a direct ranking of all three schools.
Recent trends are mixed by subject and grade. Middle’s ELA rose from 63% to 80% between 2024–25 and 2025–26, while its math increased from 50% to 53%; Hanna’s ELA rose from 65% to 73%, but its math fell from 61% to 57%. High’s grade-10 PreACT results dropped from the prior year by 25 points in ELA, 12 in math, and 19 in science, even as grade-9 science improved by 12 points. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking rose 1 point for Hanna and 7 for Middle from 2023–24 to 2025–26, but fell 11 for High. As context, all three reported free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–25: 23% at Hanna, 19% at Middle, and 18% at High; student-teacher ratios ranged from 13.7 to 14.6. These measures do not establish what explains schools’ results.
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