Summary:
Central City School District 133 has one listed school, Central City Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 276 students. In 2025–2026, 53% of students were proficient in ELA, compared with 56% statewide, while 27% were proficient in math, compared with 40% statewide. Math is the clearest concern: the school’s proficiency rate was 13 points below Illinois, compared with a 3-point ELA gap.
There is no local school-to-school leader or trailer because this is the only school in the list; its grade results offer a more useful comparison. ELA stood out in grades 5–7, where proficiency was 9, 7, and 5 points above the state, respectively. Results were weaker in grade 4 ELA, 13 points below the state, and grade 5 science, 17 points below. Math was below the state in each reported grade, with the largest gap in grade 4 at 12 points. The school’s grade-level ELA results varied considerably, from 42% to 65% across grades 4–8.
Recent all-grades results have become less favorable relative to the state. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA proficiency at Central City Elementary School fell from 60% to 53% as the state rate rose from 53% to 56%; math fell from 31% to 27% while the state rose from 39% to 40%. SchoolDigger’s ranking also declined, from the 68th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 36th in 2025–2026, and its rating went from 3 stars to 2. Other context: chronic absenteeism was 8% versus 24% statewide in 2025–2026; the student–teacher ratio was 12.8 and 58% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. With only one school, the data cannot support comparisons among local schools or show that these context measures explain achievement.
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