Giant City CCSD 130

Giant City CCSD 130 has one school, serving students in PK–8, with 218 students. At its only school, Giant City Elementary School, 2025–2026 results were above Illinois in both all-grades IAR subjects: 82% were proficient in ELA, compared with 56% statewide, and 55% in math, compared with 40% statewide. Chronic absenteeism was also lower, at 8% versus 24% statewide. The most important finding is that the school is substantially above state results in both ELA and math.

Giant City Elementary School is the sole school in the area, so there is no separate school leader or trailer to compare. Its strongest reported grade-level result is 8th-grade science: 91% proficient, compared with 52% statewide, a 39-point advantage. The all-grades ELA advantage over the state was 26 points, larger than the 16-point math advantage. Results were above state levels in every reported 2025–2026 ELA grade and every reported math grade; grade 4 ELA and grade 3 math were closer to state results than several other grades. Math scores for grades 5 and 6 were suppressed, so their standing cannot be assessed.

Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: all-grades ELA rose 8 points and math rose 5 points, while state results rose 3 and 1 points, respectively. The school’s leads widened by 5 points in ELA and 4 in math. Grade 8 science also rose 27 points, compared with a 7-point state increase, and its lead widened from 18 to 39 points. Separately, SchoolDigger reports a four-star rating and a rank of 348 out of 1,737 schools, at the 80th percentile; its percentile was 82 in 2023–2024 and 74 in 2024–2025, so the history is not a steady rise. Context includes a 13.6:1 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 39% eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025; these figures do not explain the results.