Summary:
Momence CUSD 1 has one elementary school, Je-Neir Elementary School, serving kindergarten through grade 4 with 328 students, so families have no other elementary school in the area to compare it with. In 2025–2026, Je-Neir’s proficiency was below Illinois in both subjects: 38% in English Language Arts (ELA) versus 56% statewide, and 29% in math versus 40%. The most important finding is that the state gap was larger in ELA—18 percentage points, compared with 11 points in math.
Because Je-Neir is the only school in the list, it is neither a meaningful area leader nor a trailer. Its grade-level results show where the state comparisons differed: grade 3 math proficiency was 27%, 22 points below Illinois at 49%, while grade 4 math was 32%, 11 points below the state’s 42%. In ELA, Je-Neir was 36% in grade 3 versus 48% statewide, and 41% in grade 4 versus 56%. Chronic absenteeism was a comparatively positive measure: 21% at Je-Neir in 2025–2026, below the district’s 27% and Illinois’s 24%.
Results moved in different directions by subject. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA proficiency rose from 32% to 38%, and the gap with Illinois narrowed by 2 points; math slipped from 30% to 29%, while its state gap widened by 2 points. SchoolDigger placed Je-Neir at the 17th percentile in 2025–2026, after the 27th percentile in 2024–2025 and 20th percentile in 2023–2024—a pattern that did not rise consistently. The student-teacher ratio was 12.8 in 2024–2025, and 75% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures describe the school’s context, not the cause of its results.
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