Summary:
Towanda has one listed school, Towanda Elementary School, serving kindergarten through grade 5, with 193 students in McLean County Unified School District 5. Its latest results show proficiency above state rates in every reported subject and grade.
As the only school listed, Towanda stands out in the available data, though it cannot be ranked against local peers. In 2025–2026, its all-grade ELA proficiency was 77%, compared with 56% statewide, and math proficiency was 61%, compared with 40% statewide. Fifth-grade science was 74%, versus 48% statewide. Within the school, grade 4 had the strongest reported results: ELA was 88% and math 75%. Grade 3 math was the closest to the state rate, at 58% versus 49%; even so, every reported grade-level result was above its same-grade state comparison. Results varied by as much as 27 percentage points across grades in both ELA and math.
Scores declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while state results rose, narrowing Towanda’s advantage: ELA fell 7 points, math 9 points, and fifth-grade science 12 points; the respective state margins shrank by 11, 11, and 19 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking also dipped after a high point: Towanda moved from rank 352 of 2,067 schools, percentile 83 and 4 stars, in 2023–2024, to rank 98 of 2,056, percentile 95 and 5 stars, in 2024–2025, then rank 315 of 1,737, percentile 82 and 4 stars, in 2025–2026. The student-teacher ratio was 14.4 in 2024–2025, and 12% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 9% in 2025–2026, about 15 percentage points below both the district and state rates. Because only one school is listed, the data cannot show how Towanda compares with other schools in the city.
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