Pleasant Valley School District 62

Pleasant Valley School District 62 has two schools serving preschool through grade 8: Pleasant Valley Primary School serves PK–3, and Pleasant Valley Intermediate School serves grades 4–8. In 2025–2026, both schools were below Illinois proficiency rates in their all-grades English language arts and math results. This is the most important overall finding for families comparing the schools with state results.

The schools lead in different subjects: Intermediate had the stronger all-grades ELA result, at 51% proficient versus Primary’s 42%, while Primary led in math, at 35% versus Intermediate’s 26%. Those leads were about 10 points in each subject; both schools remained below the state rates of 56% in ELA and 40% in math. Intermediate grade 8 stands out as an exception to its lower all-grades results: 86% were proficient in ELA, 23 points above the grade-level state rate, and 41% in math, 7 points above the state rate. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades scores are not like-for-like comparisons.

ELA results improved at both schools from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: Primary rose from 37% to 42%, and Intermediate from 43% to 51%. Math moved in opposite directions: Primary fell from 43% to 35%, while Intermediate rose from 21% to 26%. The profiles also differ in useful context: Primary’s 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 10.7, and 98% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible; Intermediate’s ratio was 9.2 and all students received free meals through Community Eligibility in 2024–2025. These income measures are not directly comparable. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 32% at Primary and 26% at Intermediate, above the state’s 24% at both schools. SchoolDigger ranks the district 581st of 738 statewide, at the 21st percentile, with one star.