Summary:
Salt Fork Community Unit District 512 has four schools serving 878 students: two elementary schools, a junior high and a high school. Results are mixed: some elementary-grade scores are above state levels, while all-grades math and high-school test results are weaker. The clearest concern is Salt Fork High School: in 2025–26, grade 11 ACT ELA proficiency was 24%, compared with 50% statewide, and science was 26% versus 48%—gaps of 26 and 22 percentage points.
Salt Fork South Elementary School stands out in grade 3 and grade 5 science: it led Salt Fork North Elementary School by 13 points in grade 3 ELA and 14 points in math, and its grade 5 science score of 70% was 33 points above North’s and 22 points above the state’s. North, in turn, had the strongest reported grade 4 results: ELA was 64%, 8 points above the state, and math was 50%, 8 points above. Salt Fork Junior High School was near the state in all-grades ELA (57% versus 56%), but its math result was 22%, 17 points below the state. The available results therefore show different strengths by grade and subject, rather than one elementary school leading across the board.
SchoolDigger’s rankings show South gaining ground while the high school fell: South rose from the 31st percentile in 2023–24 to the 52nd in 2025–26, while the high school declined from the 50th to the 16th; North and Junior High were at the 33rd and 32nd percentiles most recently. Across the three schools with all-grades IAR results, the average state gap widened from 4 to 9 points below the state in ELA and from 8 to 11 points below in math. Context also varies: South’s student-teacher ratio was 9.0 to 1, compared with Junior High’s 16.6 to 1; South had 77% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25, versus 49% at North. These are school-context measures, not explanations for test results.
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