N Pekin & Marquette Hght School District 102

N Pekin & Marquette Hght School District 102 has two schools serving prekindergarten through grade 8: Marquette Elementary School serves PK–3 and enrolls 223 students, while Georgetown Middle School serves grades 4–8 and enrolls 230. In the latest all-grades results, both schools are above the state in ELA: Georgetown is at 61% and Marquette at 59%, compared with 56% statewide. Mathematics results differ more: Marquette is at 59%, Georgetown at 36%, and the state at 40%. The clearest school-to-school contrast is mathematics, where Marquette’s reported result is 23 percentage points higher than Georgetown’s.

Marquette stands out in its reported all-grades mathematics result, 19 points above the state; Georgetown is 4 points below. Georgetown’s ELA result is 5 points above the state, while Marquette’s is 3 points above. Grade-level results add important detail: Georgetown was above the state in ELA in four of five grades, but grade 7 was 6 points below. Its mathematics was above the state only in grade 5, by 14 points, and grade 8 was 9 points below. Marquette’s grade 3 results were 11 points above the state in ELA and 10 points above in mathematics. Georgetown’s 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism was 20%, versus 6% at Marquette and 24% statewide.

Mathematics improved at both schools from 2024–2025: Marquette rose from 45% to 59%, while Georgetown increased from 33% to 36%; the state rose from 39% to 40%. ELA moved differently: Georgetown edged up from 60% to 61%, while Marquette fell from 61% to 59%, as the state rose from 53% to 56%. SchoolDigger ranked Georgetown at the 41st percentile in 2025–2026, down from the 58th percentile the year before, despite slight increases in its reported subject scores. For context, 2024–2025 student-teacher ratios were 14.3 at Marquette and 13.1 at Georgetown; both reported free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025, at 56% and 59%, respectively. The schools serve different grade spans and have no overlapping tested grades, so their all-grades results are not like-for-like comparisons.