Huntley Community School District 158

Huntley Community School District 158 includes eight schools serving kindergarten through grade 12—five elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school—with 8,159 students enrolled. Among schools with reported results, elementary IAR averages were 74% in English language arts (ELA) and 63% in math, compared with state results of 56% and 40%; middle-school averages were 75% in ELA and 53% in math, versus 56% and 40% statewide. Huntley High School also scored above the state in all three reported ACT subjects. The clearest overall finding is that every reported all-grades IAR result and every Huntley High ACT result exceeded its matching state result.

Martin Elementary School led the tested elementary schools in all-grades ELA at 76%, while Conley Elementary School was lowest at 72%, a 4-point gap. Leggee Elementary School led elementary math at 67%; Conley was lowest at 60%, a 7-point gap. In middle school, Marlowe Middle School led ELA at 76%, 2 points above Heineman Middle School. Heineman narrowly led math, 53.3% to Marlowe’s 53.1%. Leggee also stood out in grade 5 science at 64%, compared with Conley’s 48% and the state’s 48%. Huntley High’s ACT results were 14 to 25 points above state results, with the largest advantage in science.

Recent trends favor Martin among elementary schools: its ELA rose 9 points and math 5 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while Conley and Leggee were flat or declined. Middle-school averages rose 4 points in both ELA and math; Huntley High’s ACT ELA fell 5 points, while its math rose 1 point and science rose 2. SchoolDigger’s rankings also moved in different directions: Martin’s percentile rose from 76 to 81 over three years, while Conley’s fell from 82 to 75. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 18% at Leggee, 28% at Martin and 23% at Conley; these figures do not explain test results. Huntley High combines a 94% graduation rate with the district’s highest chronic absenteeism, 26%, compared with 13% on average at the other seven schools. Chesak Elementary School and Mackeben Elementary School, which serve kindergarten through grade 2, have no test-score entries.