Summary:
Piper City, Illinois, has one listed school, Tri-Point Junior High/Elementary, serving grades 4–8 and enrolling 129 students. Its reported results show stronger performance in some subjects than others, with chronic absenteeism above the state rate. The clearest strength is mathematics: the school’s 2025–2026 proficiency was 13 percentage points above the Illinois rate.
Because there is only one school in the list, there is no local top-to-bottom school comparison; measured against Illinois, Tri-Point Junior High/Elementary stood out most in math, with 53% proficient compared with 40% statewide. Its ELA result was also higher, at 59% versus 56%. Science was the weaker area: grade 5 proficiency was 42%, 5 points below the state, and grade 8 was 46%, 6 points below. Chronic absenteeism was 32%, 9 points higher than the state’s 24%, though 2 points below the district’s 34%.
Recent results improved overall in math and ELA, while science varied by grade. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, math proficiency at Tri-Point Junior High/Elementary rose from 45% to 53%, and its advantage over the state grew from 7 to 13 points. ELA rose from 50% to 59%, moving from 3 points below the state to 3 points above. Science moved in opposite directions: grade 5 fell by 30 points, while grade 8 rose by 17 points but remained below the state. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 63rd percentile in 2025–2026, up from the 51st percentile the prior year. Other context includes a 9.9:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 96% of students free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these figures describe the school, not the cause of its results.
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