Summary:
Marengo-Union E Cons D 165 has two elementary schools serving PK–5: Locust Elementary School serves PK–3, and Ulysses S Grant Intermediate School serves grades 4–5. In 2025–2026, Locust recorded 60% proficiency in all-grades ELA and 62% in math; Grant recorded 44% in ELA and 35% in math. The schools serve different grades, so the all-grades results are not a same-grade comparison. The clearest overall finding is that Locust was above state results in both subjects, while Grant was below the state in both.
Locust stands out in the overall results, leading Grant by 16 points in ELA and 27 points in math; it was also 4 points above the state in ELA and 22 points above in math. Grade-level results show a more mixed picture at Grant: its fourth-grade math was 8 points above the state, while fourth-grade ELA was 3 points below. Fifth grade is the main concern: Grant was 18 points below the state in ELA, 14 points below in math, and 20 points below in science. Locust’s third-grade results were 13 points above the state in both ELA and math.
Recent trends are mixed. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Locust’s ELA result rose by 6 points and its advantage over the state grew to 4 points, while its math result fell by 6 points and its state advantage narrowed to 22 points. Grant’s ELA rose by 2 points, but its deficit grew by about 1 point; its math fell by 3 points, and its deficit widened from 2 to 5 points. Chronic absenteeism was lower at Locust than Grant—10% versus 17% in 2025–2026. Both schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025: 56% at Locust and 59% at Grant. Their student-teacher ratios were 14.3 and 15.9, respectively. SchoolDigger gives both the same district ranking: 587 of 738, in the 20th percentile, with one star; this is not an individual-school ranking. Grant’s separate SchoolDigger history fell from the 60th to the 28th percentile between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026, while Locust’s supplied history is older.
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