Summary:
Niles Education Service District 71 has one listed school, Clarence E Culver School, serving students in pre-K through grade 8. Its 666 students have no other school in this list to compare with, so the most useful comparisons are with Illinois and across grades. The clearest positive finding is that the school’s 2025–2026 all-grades ELA proficiency was 65%, 9 percentage points above the state’s 56%.
Clarence E Culver is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in the list by default. Its all-grades math result was also above Illinois—44% compared with 40%, a 4-point advantage—but that overall result hides uneven grade-level performance. The school exceeded the state in ELA in all six tested grades, by 0.4 to 20.9 points; its largest advantage was in grade 5. In math, it was ahead in grades 3, 5, 6, and 7, but behind in grade 4 by 5.2 points and grade 8 by 0.9 point. Grade 8 science was also 1.9 points below the state.
Recent results show stronger relative progress in ELA than in math, with a notable science reversal. All-grades ELA rose from 61% in 2024–2025 to 65% in 2025–2026, while its advantage over the state widened from 8 to 9 points. Math edged up from 43.5% to 43.9%, but its state advantage narrowed from 5 to 4 points. Grade 8 science fell from 75% to 50%, a 25-point drop, while the state rose from 45% to 52%. SchoolDigger rates the school 3 stars; its percentile was 62 in 2023–2024, 65 in 2024–2025, and 57 in 2025–2026. Context figures include an 11.8 student–teacher ratio and 54% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, plus 11% chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026, below the state’s 24%.
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