Summary:
Jacksonville School District 117 in Illinois has only one middle school, Jacksonville Middle School, which serves students in grades 6-8. The school has consistently underperformed compared to other Illinois middle schools, ranking in the lower half of the state's 1,350 middle schools over the past three years.
Jacksonville Middle School has a performance rating of 2 out of 5 stars on the SchoolDigger scale, indicating below-average performance. The school lags behind the state and district averages in English Language Arts and Mathematics proficiency, with only 41% and 23.3% of students meeting proficiency standards, respectively, for the 2024-2025 school year. However, the school's 8th-grade Science proficiency rate of 57.7% is higher than the state average of 45.4%.
Socioeconomic factors may be contributing to the school's challenges, as it has a relatively high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch (51.83%) and a chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4%, which is higher than the state average. Despite the school's relatively high per-student spending ($16,921) and small class sizes (student-teacher ratio of 11.4), these resources have not yet translated into significantly better academic outcomes. Identifying and addressing the root causes of the school's performance issues, as well as leveraging its strengths in Science, could be important steps in improving the educational outcomes for the students at Jacksonville Middle School.
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