Summary:
Stillman Valley, Illinois, has three schools serving grades PK–12: Highland Elementary School (PK–2), Meridian Junior High School (grades 6–8), and Stillman Valley High School (grades 9–12). Enrollment ranges from 328 at the junior high to 433 at the high school. No elementary achievement result is provided, so Highland cannot be placed in an academic comparison. The clearest academic finding is that Meridian Junior High led the state in its supplied 2025–2026 results: all-grades ELA proficiency was 70% versus 56% statewide, and grade 8 science was 59% versus 52%.
Meridian Junior High has the strongest achievement profile in the results provided, especially in ELA: grade 7 was 74% proficient versus 58% statewide, a 16-point advantage. Its math results were more mixed, including grade 6 at 33% versus 36% statewide. Stillman Valley High’s results vary by grade: 11th-grade ELA and science were each about 4 points above the state, at 54% versus 50% and 52% versus 48%, respectively, while 9th-grade math was 30% versus 42%, a 12-point deficit. Highland’s 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism was 13%, but its academic standing cannot be judged from the supplied results.
Recent changes are mixed rather than pointing in one direction. Meridian’s all-grades ELA result slipped from 73% in 2024–2025 to 70% in 2025–2026, while its grade 8 science result rose from 40% to 59%. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking moved from the 66th percentile to the 65th for Meridian, and from the 77th to the 60th for Stillman Valley High. Attendance is another notable difference: chronic absenteeism was 23.9% at the high school, slightly above the 23.5% state rate, compared with 13% at Highland and 14% at the junior high. Student–teacher ratios were similar, from 13.3 to 13.8 in 2024–2025; free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year ranged from 30% at the junior high to 34% at the elementary school. These figures describe school context, not the reasons for differences in results.
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