Summary:
Rock Island School District 41 includes 12 schools—nine elementary, two middle and one high school—serving pre-K through grade 12 in the Rock Island area. In 2025–2026, the elementary schools averaged 31% proficient in All Grades ELA and 25% in math, compared with state results of 56% and 40%. The most important takeaway is that elementary results vary widely from school to school, even as the group’s averages trail state results in both subjects.
Eugene Field Elementary School led elementary schools with 51% proficient in ELA and 42% in math; its math result was 2 percentage points above the state. At the other end, Longfellow Elementary School had the lowest reported elementary ELA result, 15%, while Rock Island Academy had the lowest reported math result, 7%. Denkmann Elementary School stood out in fifth-grade science: 53% proficient, 6 points above the state. Among the middle schools, Washington Junior High School led in ELA, while Edison Junior High School edged ahead in math. The sole high school, Rock Island High School, was below state results in all three reported grade 11 ACT subjects.
Recent results show different patterns by grade level: the mean for the same eight elementary schools with reported math results fell from 26% to 25% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while the two middle schools’ mean rose from 16% to 19%. Denkmann’s fifth-grade science result increased 40 percentage points over that period, from 13% to 53%. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking percentile fell for all ten schools with comparable 2023–2024 and 2025–2026 entries; Field, for example, went from 60 to 39 despite gains in its two-year ELA and math results. School characteristics offer context, not an explanation for results: Field had an elementary-high enrollment of 496 and a student-teacher ratio of 19.6, while its free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 54% (school year 2024–2025); Denkmann’s measure was 73% that year.
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