Richland GSD 88A

Richland GSD 88A has one listed school, Richland Elementary School, serving pre-K through grade 8 and enrolling 774 students. With no second local school, the useful comparisons are with Illinois results and across Richland’s grades. The most important finding is that in 2025–2026, Richland’s all-grade results were above the state in both ELA, 63% versus 56%, and math, 42% versus 40%.

Within the school, results vary by grade, and the strongest grade differs by subject. Grade 8 had the highest ELA result at 81%, while grade 3 had the lowest at 50%; the state comparison ranged from 17 points above in grade 8 to 2 points below in grade 4. In math, grade 6 was strongest at 48%, while grade 8 was lowest at 34%. Grade 6 was 12 points above the state, but grade 3 was 4 points below. These differences show why the overall results do not describe every grade equally.

All-grade results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose from 58% to 63%, and math from 35% to 42%. The state gains were smaller, and Richland moved from 4 points below the state in math to 2 points above; ELA’s lead grew from 5 to 7 points. Science was less consistent: grade 5 fell from 54% to 43%, shifting from 13 points above the state to 5 points below, while grade 8 remained above the state. SchoolDigger’s ranking history moved the other way, declining from the 62nd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 52nd in 2025–2026. As context, the school’s student-teacher ratio was 12.3 in 2024–2025, and 59% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 17% in 2025–2026, 6 points below the state rate.