Belle Valley School District 119

Belle Valley School District 119 has one listed school, Belle Valley School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8, with 997 students. In 2025–26, its all-grades English language arts proficiency was 53%, compared with 56% statewide; mathematics proficiency was 28%, compared with 40% statewide. The most important concern is mathematics: results were below the state in every tested grade, with especially large gaps in grades 4 and 5.

There are no other listed schools to compare or rank as local leaders or laggards, so the clearest differences are among grades. English language arts is a relative bright spot in grades 3, 6, and 7, where Belle Valley School scored 3, 2, and 2 percentage points above the state, respectively. By contrast, grade 4 mathematics was 16% versus 42% statewide, a 26-point gap, and grade 5 was 15% versus 36%, a 21-point gap. Grade 4 was also the school’s lowest ELA grade, at 44% compared with 56% statewide. These results show that performance varies by grade, especially in mathematics.

Recent all-grades scores improved, although the ranking moved the other way: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA rose by 5 percentage points and mathematics by 3, while both gaps with the state narrowed slightly. SchoolDigger’s ranking declined from the 45th percentile in 2023–24 to the 30th percentile in 2025–26, and it gave the school a one-star rating for 2025–26. Science results were mixed: grade 5 rose to 30% but remained 18 points below the state, while grade 8 fell to 36%, moving from 4 points above the state in 2024–25 to 16 points below in 2025–26. As context, the school’s student–teacher ratio was 12.6 in 2024–25, and 83% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; chronic absenteeism was 21% in 2025–26 versus 24% statewide.