Summary:
Limestone Walters CCSD 316 has one listed school, Limestone Walters Elementary School, serving kindergarten through eighth grade and enrolling 169 students. In 2025–2026, 78% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), compared with 56% statewide, a 22-point lead; in math, 56% were proficient, compared with 40% statewide, a 16-point lead. The most important finding is that the school’s latest results are substantially above Illinois averages in both subjects.
There is no local school-to-school comparison because Limestone Walters is the area’s only school, so it is both the area’s highest- and lowest-ranked school by default. Within the school, ELA results vary by grade: fourth grade was strongest at 86% proficient, while eighth grade was 65%; compared with state results, the school’s advantage ranged from 34 points in third grade to just 2 points in eighth. Science was also above state results in both reported grades: fifth grade was 74% proficient versus 48% statewide, and eighth grade was 77% versus 52%. State-suppressed math results for fourth, sixth, and eighth grades are unknown.
Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA proficiency rose from 58% to 78%, and math from 46% to 56%, while statewide gains were smaller. SchoolDigger ranked the school 155th of 1,737 statewide in 2025–2026, in the 91st percentile with five stars; its ranking also improved from 798th (61st percentile, three stars) in 2023–2024 to 602nd (71st percentile, four stars) in 2024–2025. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 11.6 in 2024–2025 and 30% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Chronic absenteeism was 12% in 2025–2026, below the 24% statewide rate.
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