Elementary Schools in Roxana CUSD 1

Elementary schools in Roxana CUSD 1 serve 815 students across prekindergarten through grade 5: South Primary School serves PK–2, and Central Intermediate School serves grades 3–5. The schools’ reported chronic absenteeism is below the state rate, but Central’s latest academic results are below state proficiency levels. In 2025–2026, Central’s all-grades ELA result was 46% versus 56% statewide, and math was 29% versus 40%—about 10 percentage points below the state in each subject; fifth-grade math was the sharpest shortfall, 17% versus 36%.

Central has both the strongest and weakest grade-level result in the reported scores: fourth-grade ELA nearly matched the state at 55.4% versus 55.8%, while fifth-grade math was 16.5% versus 36.2%, a gap of 20 points. South has no reported test results, and the schools serve different grade spans, so the available scores do not support a direct school-to-school academic comparison. For attendance, Central is lower than South: chronic absenteeism was 20% at Central and 21% at South in 2025–2026, compared with 24% statewide and 28% districtwide. Both schools were below the district rate.

Results over time are mixed: Central’s all-grades ELA rose from 39% in 2024–2025 to 46% in 2025–2026, narrowing its gap with the state by 4 points; math fell from 33% to 29%, and its state gap widened by 5 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking for Central also declined, from the 40th percentile with two stars in 2023–2024 to the 24th percentile with one star in 2025–2026, even as its ELA score increased. As context, in 2024–2025 South’s student-teacher ratio was 14.7 and its free/reduced lunch eligible share was 59%; Central’s were 15.3 and 58%, respectively. These figures are similar and do not by themselves indicate which school is the better fit.