Summary:
The five schools in Bethalto CUSD 8 enroll 2,368 students across three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, serving children from primary through high school. Across the listed elementary and middle school grades, equal-weighted results average 4 percentage points below state results in ELA and 5 points below in math; the two available science grades average 9 points below the state. The overall picture is uneven, but elementary and middle school results are below state averages—especially in math and science—even though some younger-grade results are stronger.
Parkside Primary School stands out in grade 3: ELA proficiency was 53%, 5 points above the state, and math was 55%, 6 points above. Meadowbrook Intermediate School also had a bright spot in grade 4 ELA, at 60%, 4 points above the state. The largest shortfalls were at Wilbur Trimpe Middle School in grade 8 ELA, 14 points below the state, and at Meadowbrook in grade 5 math, 11 points below. Civic Memorial High School was above state results in all three grade 11 ACT subjects, including science by 6 points, but below in all three grade 10 PreACT subjects. Bethalto East Primary School has no test results listed, and grade-specific comparisons are more useful than all-grades comparisons because schools serve different grades.
Some results improved, though not every school moved closer to the state. Parkside’s all-grades IAR results rose 18 points in ELA and 15 in math from the prior reported year; Civic Memorial’s grade 11 ACT results rose 3 points in ELA, 1 in math and 6 in science. SchoolDigger rankings give Civic Memorial 58th-percentile standing and 3 stars, Meadowbrook 34th percentile and 2 stars, and Wilbur Trimpe 28th percentile and 1 star; all three schools’ percentiles declined from their 2023–2024 standings. As context, all five schools report a free/reduced lunch eligible measure for school year 2024–2025, ranging from 43% to 55% and averaging 49%. Student-teacher ratios are fairly close, from 14.2 to 15.6, with no obvious match to the different achievement patterns.
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