Elementary Schools in Rock Island School District 41

Nine elementary schools in Rock Island School District 41 serve students through sixth grade, with some beginning in prekindergarten and others in kindergarten. In 2025–26, their unweighted all-grades averages were 31% proficient in ELA and 25% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide. The most important takeaway is that the school averages are well below Illinois results, despite notable strengths at individual schools.

Eugene Field stands out: it led in ELA at 51% and math at 42%, exceeding the district by 16 and 20 points, respectively; its math result was also 2 points above the state. Its ELA, however, remained 5 points below the state. Denkmann was next in all-grades ELA at 45% and led reported fifth-grade science with 53%, 6 points above Illinois. At the lower end, Longfellow had the lowest reported ELA result at 15%, while Rock Island Academy was lowest in math at 7%; its math result was 15 points below the district. Some grade-specific results tell a brighter story: Ridgewood reached 41% in sixth-grade math, 5 points above the state.

Recent averages show little local progress relative to state gains: ELA was about 31% in both 2024–25 and 2025–26, while Illinois rose 3 points; the matched-school math average fell from 26% to 25% as the state increased 1 point. SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 rankings place Eugene Field at the 39th percentile and Denkmann at the 32nd, while Rock Island Academy is at the 0th percentile. School context also varies: the 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 54% at Eugene Field and 96% at Rock Island Academy, and their student-teacher ratios were 19.6 and 16.3, respectively; these are observations, not explanations of results. Longfellow’s math result is suppressed, so the math average covers eight schools.