Summary:
The four schools in Iroquois County CUSD 9 serve 939 students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Wanda Kendall Elementary School serves PK–K, Glenn Raymond School serves grades 1–5, Watseka Junior High School serves grades 6–8, and Watseka Community High School serves grades 9–12. The schools’ results vary by grade and subject, with attendance also ranging from 15% at Glenn Raymond to 30% at the high school in 2025–2026. The clearest overall academic standout is Watseka Junior High, while Glenn Raymond’s all-grades math result is a notable concern.
Watseka Junior High leads the reported all-grades IAR results: 67% in ELA, 11 points above the state, and 42% in math, 2 points above. It also exceeded state results in ELA and math in every grade from 6 through 8. At Glenn Raymond, fifth-grade science was a bright spot at 71%, 24 points above the state, but all-grades math was 23%, 17 points below. High school results also differ by grade: grade 10 ELA was 64%, 10 points above the state, while grade 11 ACT results were below state results in all three subjects, including math by 13 points. Wanda Kendall serves PK–K, and test results are not reported for it. Because the schools serve different grades and use different assessments, their scores are not direct like-for-like comparisons.
Recent changes are mixed, though science improved notably: fifth-grade science at Glenn Raymond rose 16 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and eighth-grade science at Watseka Junior High rose 20 points. Math moved the other way at Glenn Raymond, falling 9 points, while junior-high math rose 4. SchoolDigger statewide ranking percentiles also declined over the three most recent listed years: Glenn Raymond went from the 52nd to the 38th percentile, Watseka Junior High from the 74th to the 59th, and the high school from the 78th to the 53rd. As context, the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible measure ranged from 54% at the high school to 78% at Wanda Kendall; student-teacher ratios ranged from 11.2:1 at junior high to 13.2:1 at Wanda Kendall.
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