Summary:
The Rock Falls Education Service District 13 has one middle school, Rock Falls Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 246 students. The school’s results are mixed: its 2025–2026 all-grades ELA proficiency was 58%, slightly above Illinois at 56%, while math proficiency was 27%, 12 percentage points below the state’s 40%. Most importantly, the all-grades math result is a substantial area of concern compared with Illinois.
There is no meaningful top or bottom school in this one-school list, but results differ sharply by grade. The standout is grade 8 ELA: 80% proficient, 16 points above Illinois. At the other end, grade 6 math was 19% proficient, 17 points below the state; grade 6 ELA was also below Illinois, at 45% versus 59%. Grade 8 results were much stronger than grade 6 results: ELA differed by 35 points between those grades, and math by 16 points. The school’s all-grades ELA result was 2 points above Illinois, while its all-grades math result was 12 points below.
Recent trends are less favorable in ELA and math, while grade 8 science improved. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA proficiency at the school fell from 60% to 58% as the state rose from 53% to 56%, narrowing the school’s advantage by 5 points. Math fell from 34% to 27% while the state rose from 39% to 40%, widening the school’s shortfall by 7 points. Grade 8 science increased from 41% to 48%, and its gap with Illinois narrowed from 5 to 4 points below. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile declined from 72 in 2023–2024 to 38 in 2025–2026, with ratings falling from 4 stars to 2; the student–teacher ratio was 11.3 in 2024–2025, and 75% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. These figures provide context, not explanations for achievement.
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