Summary:
East Peoria School District 86 has one middle school, Central Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 in East Peoria. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades proficiency was 42% in ELA and 25% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide. The clearest overall finding is that both subject results were 15 percentage points below Illinois.
There is no top or bottom school within the area to compare: Central Junior High is the only school listed. Within the school, grade 8 math was the lowest result at 19%, 16 points below the state; grade 7 ELA was also notably low at 38%, 19 points below the state. The strongest grade-level results were grade 8 ELA at 45% and grade 7 math at 30%, though both were below their statewide rates. SchoolDigger ranked the school 910th of 1,126 statewide in 2025–2026, placing it in the 19th percentile with 1 star.
Test results weakened relative to the state from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA fell from 46% to 42%, while the state rose from 53% to 56%; math declined from 26% to 25%, while the state increased from 39% to 40%. SchoolDigger’s ranking history also shifted downward, from the 50th percentile in 2024–2025 to the 19th in 2025–2026. One contrasting measure is attendance: chronic absenteeism was 20% at the school, 3 percentage points below the state, but 4 points above the district rate. In 2024–2025, the school had 434 students, a student–teacher ratio of 11, and 47% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. These are context measures, not explanations for achievement; because only one school is listed, the data cannot show differences among area middle schools.
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