East Alton School District 13

East Alton School District 13 serves elementary and middle-school students in two schools: Eastwood Elementary School (K–5) and East Alton Middle School (grades 6–8). In 2025–26, both schools’ all-grades proficiency results were below state results in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics. The equal-school average was 42% in ELA, 14 percentage points below the state’s 56%; in mathematics it was 19%, 20 points below the state’s 40%. The most important shared concern is mathematics: its average shortfall was 6 points larger than the ELA shortfall.

East Alton Middle had the higher reported all-grades results, at 48% in ELA and 21% in mathematics, compared with 36% and 18% at Eastwood—advantages of 12 and 3 points, respectively. Still, Eastwood had the larger state gap: 21 points in ELA and 22 in mathematics, versus 8 and 19 points at the middle school. The schools serve different grades, so their overall results are not a same-grade comparison. Both schools also had high chronic absenteeism in 2025–26: 35% at Eastwood and 38% at the middle school, compared with 24% statewide.

ELA proficiency improved at both schools from 2024–25 to 2025–26, rising about 5 points at each, and the average gap to the state narrowed by 1 point. Mathematics was less encouraging: Eastwood stayed near 18%, while the middle school fell 3 points; the average gap widened by 3 points. SchoolDigger’s rankings also declined over the three reported years: Eastwood moved from the 29th to the 10th percentile, and the middle school from the 46th to the 23rd; both received one star for 2025–26. The schools had similar 2024–25 student–teacher ratios—10.5 at Eastwood and 10.8 at the middle school. As context, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 41% at Eastwood and 51% at the middle school in 2024–25; these figures describe the schools and do not explain their results.