Summary:
River Forest School District 90 serves River Forest, Illinois, through three schools: Lincoln Elementary School and Willard Elementary School serve PK–4, and Roosevelt School serves grades 5–8. In 2025–26, all three schools were above state results in every listed grade and subject; across the reported all-grades results, the school average was 35 points above the state in ELA and 46 points above in math. The strongest overall takeaway is that high proficiency relative to the state appears across all three schools, not just one grade span.
Lincoln had the highest all-grades ELA result at 92%, just ahead of Roosevelt at 91% and Willard at 90%; the spread was about 1 point. Willard led all-grades math at 90%, while Roosevelt was lowest at 82%, an 8-point spread. Elementary grade results show why school averages do not tell the whole story: Willard led grade 4 math by 12 points, while Lincoln led grade 4 ELA by 4 points. Because the schools serve different grades, all-grades comparisons are broad snapshots; SchoolDigger’s ranking pools also changed in size across years.
Average school math results rose 7 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while ELA rose 2 points; math gains were especially strong at Willard (10 points) and Roosevelt (9 points). ELA improved at those two schools but fell 2 points at Lincoln. SchoolDigger ranked Willard 18th statewide, Lincoln 25th, and Roosevelt 24th in 2025–26. Student–teacher ratios ranged from 10.3 at Roosevelt to 12.7 at Lincoln. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares for 2021–22 were 2.5% at Lincoln, 4.4% at Willard, and 5.7% at Roosevelt; these figures provide context, not an explanation of school results.
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