Summary:
Pecatonica CUSD 321 has three schools serving 889 students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Pecatonica Elementary School (PK–4), Pecatonica Community Middle School (grades 5–8), and Pecatonica High School (grades 9–12). The strongest overall message is that results vary substantially by grade and subject, rather than showing one consistent strength across the district.
Pecatonica High School stands out on the 2025–26 grade 11 ACT: proficiency was 67% in ELA, 55% in math, and 62% in science, respectively 17, 15, and 14 percentage points above state results. On IAR, Pecatonica Elementary School leads the two schools with reported All Grades math results: 56%, compared with 39% at Pecatonica Community Middle School; elementary is 17 points above the state, while middle is 1 point below. Middle leads in All Grades ELA at 64%, 7 points above the state, versus elementary’s 59%, 2 points above. Elementary grade 3 is a particular bright spot, with ELA at 71% and math at 69%, compared with 48% and 49% statewide; its grade 4 ELA, however, is 5 points below the state.
Recent trends are mixed: middle-school All Grades IAR improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26, with ELA rising 12 points and math 8 points, while high-school grade 10 PreACT proficiency fell 17 points in ELA, 16 in math, and 13 in science. SchoolDigger ranks the high school 155th of 620 (75th percentile, four stars), elementary 621st of 1,737 (64th percentile, three stars), and middle school 520th of 1,126 (54th percentile, three stars); these rankings have declined over the three listed years. Student-teacher ratios range from 11.8 at elementary to 14.1 at middle. All three schools report free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–25: 35% at elementary, 34% at middle, and 31% at high school. Since grade spans and tests differ, there is no sound single achievement ranking across the three schools.
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