Summary:
Earlville CUSD 9 has two schools serving kindergarten through grade 12: Earlville Elementary School serves K–8, and Earlville Junior/Senior High School serves grades 9–12. The schools show contrasting achievement patterns: in 2025–2026, elementary all-grades ELA and math were below state rates, while the high school’s 11th-grade ACT results were above state rates in all three reported subjects. The elementary rates were 44% in ELA and 37% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide; the high school posted 57% in ACT ELA, 50% in math, and 54% in science. The most important takeaway is that the reported elementary results lag the state overall, while the latest high-school ACT results exceed it.
Earlville Junior/Senior High School stands out on 11th-grade ACT, with results 7 percentage points above the state in ELA, 10 points above in math, and 6 points above in science. At Earlville Elementary School, 5th-grade science was a bright spot at 58%, 10 points above the state. Results vary by grade, however: 8th-grade ELA was 36%, 27 points below the state, the largest reported shortfall. Elementary all-grades ELA was 12 points below the state, while math was 2 points below. Because the schools serve different grade spans, these comparisons are not a direct school-to-school ranking.
High-school ACT results improved substantially from 2024–2025, when all three subjects were below state rates; by 2025–2026, all were above. Elementary ELA edged up, but its gap with the state widened, and math fell from slightly above to below the state. SchoolDigger rankings rose overall from 2023–2024 to 2025–2026: the elementary school gained 9 percentile points, from 45th to 54th, and moved from 2 to 3 stars; the high school gained 44 points, from 29th to 73rd, and moved from 1 to 4 stars. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 45% of elementary enrollment and 38% of high-school enrollment. Student–teacher ratios were 10.1 and 7.5, respectively; these figures provide context, not an explanation for achievement differences.
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