Summary:
Middle-school families in Robinson CUSD 2 have one school to consider: Nuttall Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 362 students. In 2025–2026, Nuttall’s all-grades ELA proficiency was 72%, compared with 56% statewide, and eighth-grade science was 64% versus 52%; all-grades math was lower at 33% versus 40%. The most important concern is sixth-grade math, where proficiency was 16%, 21 percentage points below the state.
Nuttall is the only school listed, so there is no local school-to-school leader or trailer; its strongest and weakest results are apparent in comparisons with Illinois. ELA was 15 percentage points above the state overall, and eighth-grade science was 12 points higher. Eighth-grade ELA was a particular strength at 87%, 24 points above the state’s 63%. Math varied sharply by grade: sixth grade was 21 points below the state, seventh grade was 6 points below, and eighth grade was 13 points above. A school-wide math result therefore masks a substantial difference across grades.
Results improved most in science: eighth-grade proficiency rose 17 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, compared with a 7-point state increase, and Nuttall’s lead widened from 2 to 12 points. ELA rose 4 points and stayed about 15 points above the state; math rose only 1 point and remained about 7 points below. SchoolDigger rated Nuttall 3 stars and placed it at the 59th percentile (465 of 1,126) in 2025–2026, down from the 77th percentile in 2023–2024 and 69th in 2024–2025; the number of schools ranked changed, so rank counts are not a like-for-like trend. The student-teacher ratio was 12.9 in 2024–2025, and 43% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 20.6% in 2025–2026, nearly the district’s 20.9% and below the state’s 23.5%.
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