Summary:
Columbia CUSD 4 has two elementary schools serving pre-K through grade 4: Eagleview Elementary School serves pre-K–grade 1, and Parkview Elementary School serves grades 2–4; together they enroll 686 students. Test scores are supplied only for Parkview, so the data cannot establish which school performs better academically. Parkview’s clearest academic strength is that its 2025–2026 scores were well above Illinois results in both subjects: 78% in ELA versus 56% statewide, and 76% in math versus 40% statewide.
Parkview stands out for achievement and for the lower chronic absenteeism rate, while Eagleview stands out for its lower student–teacher ratio and higher spending per student. Parkview’s state advantage was 21 points in ELA and 37 points in math; compared with district scores, however, it was 6 points lower in ELA and 7 points higher in math. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 5% at Parkview and 7% at Eagleview, both below the statewide 24%. In the supplied 2024–2025 figures, Eagleview had 12.1 students per teacher and spending of $13,052 per student, compared with Parkview’s 14.5 students per teacher and $11,547 per student. The schools’ free/reduced lunch-eligible shares that year were 16% at Eagleview and 15% at Parkview; these figures are context, not an explanation for school results.
Parkview’s scores fell from the prior year, although they remained above state results: ELA declined by 5 points, from 82% to 78%, and math by 8 points, from 84% to 76%, between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Its advantage over the state narrowed in both subjects, from 29 to 21 points in ELA and from 46 to 37 points in math. SchoolDigger ranked Parkview 166th of 1,737 schools in 2025–2026, compared with 73rd of 2,056 the previous year and 160th of 2,067 in 2023–2024; its latest ranking remains high, but the year-to-year position varies. The ranking is not a substitute for the score trend, and the available figures do not support a like-for-like achievement comparison between the schools.
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