New Hope CCSD 6

New Hope CCSD 6 has one listed school, New Hope Elementary School, serving kindergarten through grade 8, with 204 students. Since it is the only school in the area, there are no other local schools to compare; the clearest benchmark is Illinois. The most important finding is that in 2025–2026 the school scored above the state in every reported subject-grade comparison with a numerical result, including 20 points higher in all-grades ELA and 27 points higher in all-grades math.

New Hope Elementary is both the area’s top and only school, so there is no local bottom-ranked school. Its strongest all-grades advantage was in math: 66% compared with 40% statewide; in ELA, it scored 76% versus 56%. Science results were also above the state: grade 5 was 65% versus 48%, and grade 8 was 60% versus 52%. The grade 8 science result had the smallest of these listed school-state leads, at 8 points. Chronic absenteeism was 5%, compared with 24% statewide, or 19 points lower.

Results moved in different directions over time: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades ELA score fell 3 points and math fell 6 points, while state scores rose in both subjects; the school’s leads narrowed to 20 points in ELA and 27 in math. Science was mixed: grade 5 rose 9 points, while grade 8 fell 17 points, narrowing its state lead to 8 points. SchoolDigger rated the school 4 stars and placed it at the 88th percentile statewide in 2025–2026, down from the 94th percentile in 2023–2024. Context measures include a student–teacher ratio of 15.8:1 in 2024–2025 and 43% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. With one school and 204 students, the data do not allow local school-to-school comparisons, and individual grade results may reflect relatively small student groups.