Best Public Schools in Roscoe, IL

Roscoe, Illinois, has four listed schools serving prekindergarten through grade 8: Ledgewood Elementary School (PK–1), Stone Creek School (grades 2–3), Kinnikinnick School (grades 4–5), and Roscoe Middle School (grades 6–8), in Kinnikinnick CCSD 131. Because the schools serve different grades and Ledgewood has no test-score rows, the all-grades results are not like-grade comparisons. The clearest area-wide finding is that all three schools with results beat state averages in both ELA and math, with a bigger average advantage in math: 18 percentage points, compared with 11 points in ELA.

Roscoe Middle School leads the 2025–2026 all-grades ELA results at 72%, followed by Kinnikinnick School at 71% and Stone Creek School at 59%; those results are 16, 14, and 2 points above the state’s 56%. Math has a different leader: Stone Creek School scores 62%, Kinnikinnick School 59%, and Roscoe Middle School 51%, all above the state’s 40%. The math gaps are largest for Stone Creek School at 22 points and smallest for Roscoe Middle School at 11. Grade-specific science results are also above state figures: fifth-grade proficiency is 68% at Kinnikinnick School, and eighth-grade proficiency is 69% at Roscoe Middle School.

ELA improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 at all three tested schools: by 2 points at Roscoe Middle School, 3 at Kinnikinnick School, and 2 at Stone Creek School. Math rose by 4 points at Kinnikinnick School, but dipped at the other two. SchoolDigger statewide percentile rankings also fell over the latest three reported years: Roscoe Middle School went from the 88th to the 75th percentile, and Kinnikinnick School from the 82nd to the 79th, even as their latest ELA scores rose. Chronic absenteeism was below the state’s 24% at all four schools, though it was higher at Roscoe Middle School (17%) than at the other three (9%–10%). In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were close at the three tested schools, ranging from 31% to 32%; Ledgewood Elementary School reported all students receive free meals (Community Eligibility) that year, a different measure.