Summary:
Georgetown-Ridge Farm CUD 4 has one listed elementary school, Pine Crest Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5, with 429 students. In 2025–2026, 32% of students were proficient in ELA and 16% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide. The central finding is that Pine Crest trailed Illinois by about 24 percentage points in both subjects.
Pine Crest is the only school listed, so there is no meaningful top-versus-bottom comparison among schools in the area. Its grade-level results also show sizeable gaps: ELA proficiency was 19 points below the state in grade 3, 21 points below in grade 4, and 21 points below in grade 5; math was 32 points below in grade 3 and 28 points below in grade 4. The state-suppressed grade 5 math result is unknown. SchoolDigger ranked the school 1,634th of 1,737 schools in 2025–2026, at the sixth percentile and with zero stars.
Recent results were mixed, but ELA and math moved in the wrong direction: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Pine Crest fell 4 points in ELA and 5 points in math, while state results rose 3 and 1 point, respectively. By contrast, grade 5 science improved 8 points, from 17% to 25%, and its gap with the state narrowed from 24 to 23 points. SchoolDigger’s relative ranking also declined, from the 28th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 23rd in 2024–2025 and the sixth in 2025–2026. As context, 79% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, the student–teacher ratio was 13.4 to 1 that year, and chronic absenteeism was 26% in 2025–2026, versus 23% districtwide and 24% statewide.
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