Smithton CCSD 130

Smithton CCSD 130 has one listed school, Smithton Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 in the Smithton area and enrolling 541 students. The school’s 2025–26 all-grade proficiency rates were well above Illinois averages: 77% in ELA compared with 56% statewide, and 56% in math compared with 40% statewide. The strongest overall finding is that Smithton’s proficiency exceeded the state rate in both subjects, with a 21-point advantage in ELA and a 16-point advantage in math.

Because it is the only school listed, Smithton is both the group’s highest and lowest by default, rather than meaningfully ranked against district peers. Its strongest grade-level results were grade 7 ELA, at 85% compared with 58% statewide, and grade 4 math, at 73% compared with 42% statewide. Grade 8 math was the clearest weak spot: 23% proficient, 12 points below the state’s 35%. Results vary considerably by grade: Smithton’s math proficiency ranged from 23% in grade 8 to 73% in grade 4, a 50-point spread. Grade 8 science was still above the state rate in 2025–26, at 61% versus 52%, but the advantage was much smaller than the year before.

Recent changes were mixed: all-grade ELA and math proficiency rose slightly from 2024–25 to 2025–26, but their state-relative advantages narrowed from 24 to 21 points in ELA and from 16 to 16 points in math. Science fell in both tested grades: grade 5 went from 60% to 53%, while grade 8 dropped from 86% to 61%; the grade 8 advantage over the state narrowed from 41 to 9 points. SchoolDigger awards Smithton 4 stars and ranks it 338th of 1,737 schools, compared with 308th of 2,056 the previous year; the different ranking groups mean those ranks alone do not show a change in performance. Other context includes a 13.5 student–teacher ratio and 12% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25, plus 6% chronic absenteeism in 2025–26, equal to the district rate and below the state’s 24%. With only one listed school, these figures cannot support peer-school comparisons.