Summary:
The Pontiac-W Holliday School District 105 in Illinois operates two schools: William Holliday Elementary School and Pontiac Junior High School. The district as a whole is ranked 673 out of 811 districts in Illinois and is rated 1 star out of 5 by SchoolDigger, indicating significant room for improvement across the district.
While Pontiac Junior High School has shown strong performance in English Language Arts (ELA) test scores, with 49.3% of students proficient or better in 2024-2025 compared to the district average of 43.5% and the state average of 53.1%, both schools struggle with mathematics performance, scoring well below the state averages in math proficiency across all grade levels. Pontiac Junior High School has also seen a decline in its statewide school digger ranking, dropping from 396 out of 1,367 Illinois middle schools in 2022-2023 to 848 out of 1,368 in 2024-2025, despite maintaining a 2-star rating.
Both schools in the Pontiac-W Holliday School District 105 face challenges, including high chronic absenteeism rates of 25.4% and significant differences in free and reduced lunch rates between the two schools (60.49% at William Holliday Elementary vs. 54.13% at Pontiac Junior High). The district and its schools will need to focus on improving academic performance, particularly in mathematics, and addressing the high chronic absenteeism rates to better serve their students and communities.
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