Summary:
Chaney-Monge School District 88 in Illinois contains a single elementary school, Chaney-Monge School, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. The school faces significant academic challenges, with consistently low performance on state assessments and high chronic absenteeism rates.
Chaney-Monge School's proficiency rates on the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) exams are well below the state averages in both English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics. In the 2024-2025 school year, only 33.9% of students were proficient or better in ELA, compared to the state average of 53.1%, and just 13.8% were proficient in Mathematics, while the state average was 38.5%. The school's performance on the Illinois Science Assessment (ISA) is also below the state average.
Additionally, Chaney-Monge School has a high chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4%, which is significantly higher than the state average. The school serves a predominantly low-income student population, with 80.49% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2023-2024 school year. While the school's spending per student is higher than the state average, it may not be sufficient to address the academic challenges faced by the students.
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