Summary:
Trico CUSD 176 has one middle school, Trico Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 182 students. With no other middle school in the area to compare, the most useful picture comes from the school’s results against Illinois and its own earlier results. The clearest takeaway is that ELA is a relative strength, while mathematics and grade 8 science are well below state results: 63% in all-grades ELA versus 56% statewide, compared with 25% in math versus 40% and 37% in science versus 52%.
The school stands out positively in all-grades ELA, 7 points above the state in 2025–2026, but negatively in math and science, 14 and 15 points below the state. ELA’s advantage is concentrated in grades 6 and 7: grade 6 was 7 points above the state and grade 7 was 6 points above, while grade 8 was 4 points below. Math was below the state in every grade, with the largest gap in grade 8 at 15 points. These are state comparisons, not local top-and-bottom rankings; the list has only one school.
Results over time show modest ELA improvement but no progress in narrowing the math gap: ELA rose 4 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and its state advantage grew from 6 to 7 points; math rose 1 point, matching the state’s 1-point rise, so its 14-point deficit remained unchanged. Grade 8 science shifted sharply, falling 19 points while the state rose 7 points. SchoolDigger’s rating also became less favorable, moving from 3 stars and the 60th percentile in 2024–2025 to 2 stars and the 36th percentile in 2025–2026. As context, the student–teacher ratio was 13.1 in 2024–2025, and 58% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures describe the school but do not explain its scores.
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