Summary:
Silvis School District 34 has one middle school, Northeast Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 with 186 students. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades proficiency was 45% in English Language Arts (ELA) and 23% in math, while eighth-grade science proficiency was 30%. Most importantly, results were below state rates in every reported subject, with the largest gap in eighth-grade science: 22 percentage points.
Northeast Junior High School is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this list simply because it is the only one, so there are no meaningful school-to-school leaders or laggards. Its relative strength is ELA: the all-grades rate was 11 points below the state, compared with 17 points below in math. It was slightly above district results in both subjects—by 3 points in ELA and 1 point in math. Grade-level ELA results vary sharply: sixth grade was just 1 point below the state, while seventh and eighth grades were each 22 points below their grade-level state rates. Chronic absenteeism is also a concern in context: 34% of students were chronically absent, 11 points above the state rate and 4 points above the district rate.
All-grades ELA and math scores improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and the school narrowed its state gaps: ELA rose from 35% to 45%, narrowing the gap by 7 points, while math rose from 13% to 23%, narrowing the gap by 9 points. Eighth-grade science increased from 25% to 30%, but its state gap widened by 1 point. SchoolDigger’s ranking moved down over the same recent period, from the 26th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 23rd in 2024–2025 and the 19th in 2025–2026. In 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratio was 10.9, and 62% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. With only one school in the list, these figures provide context but cannot identify differences among local schools.
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