Best Public Schools in Vienna, IL

Vienna, Illinois, has two public schools serving 718 students across PK–12: Vienna Elementary School District 55 serves PK–8, and Vienna High School serves grades 9–12. The clearest shared pattern is that English language arts (ELA) is a relative strength: elementary all-grades ELA is 62% proficient, 6 points above the state, and the high school is above the state in ELA in grades 9, 10 and 11. Math is the most consistent academic challenge: elementary all-grades math is 30%, 10 points below the state, while grade 11 high-school math is 30%, 9 points below.

Vienna Elementary School District 55 has the standout grade-level result: grade 8 ELA is 83%, compared with 63% statewide, a 20-point advantage. Its lowest reported ELA result is grade 7 at 49%, 9 points below the state. At Vienna High School, ELA is above the state in all three reported grades, averaging 2 points higher across grades 9–11; math is below the state in each grade. The high school also reports a 96% graduation rate, 6 points above the state, and 16% chronic absenteeism, compared with 24% statewide. SchoolDigger ranks the elementary school 900th of 1,737 schools, in the 48th percentile with 2 stars, and the high school 294th of 620, in the 53rd percentile with 3 stars. Because the schools serve different grades and take different assessments, their test results are not a like-for-like comparison.

Recent results show mixed movement rather than a consistent shift toward state performance. Elementary ELA fell from 68% to 62% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, narrowing its state advantage from 15 to 6 points; math edged up from 29% to 30%, but its shortfall widened from 9 to 10 points. High-school grade 11 science improved from 35% to 42%, narrowing its gap with the state from 14 to 6 points. As context, in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 58% of elementary enrollment and 48% of high-school enrollment; student-teacher ratios were 13.9 and 11.8, respectively. These differences provide context, not an explanation for school results.