Riley CCSD 18

Riley CCSD 18 has one listed school, Riley Community Cons School, an elementary school serving kindergarten through grade 8 with 277 students. There are no other listed schools for a local school-to-school comparison, so the clearest picture comes from comparing the school with Illinois and looking at results by grade. In 2025–2026, the school’s overall proficiency was higher than the state’s in both ELA and math—the most important takeaway for families reviewing the area’s results.

Riley Community Cons School stands out most in overall ELA and math: about 71% of students were proficient in ELA, compared with 56% statewide, and about 54% were proficient in math, compared with 40% statewide. The school’s strongest grade-level comparisons included fourth- and seventh-grade math, each about 29 percentage points above the state, and fifth-grade science, about 25 points above. Results were not higher than the state in every grade: third-grade math was 3 points below, and eighth-grade ELA was less than 1 point above. Chronic absenteeism was also lower than the state rate, at 18% compared with 24%.

Overall results stayed strong, but the school’s advantage over Illinois narrowed from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: by about 3 points in ELA and 1 point in math. Science moved differently by grade: fifth-grade proficiency climbed from 50% to 72%, while eighth-grade results slipped from 65% to 63%. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking also declined, from the 84th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 73rd in 2025–2026, although its rating remained 4 stars throughout. For context, the school’s 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 11.6 to 1, and 37% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures do not establish what explains test results.