Summary:
South Fork School District 14 in Illinois contains a single elementary school, South Fork Elementary School, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through 6th grade. Based on the available data, South Fork Elementary School appears to be a struggling school, ranking 1,524 out of 2,056 Illinois elementary schools and earning a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
The school faces significant challenges, with a chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4% in the 2024-2025 school year, well above the state average. Student performance on standardized tests is also consistently below state averages, with only 35% of students proficient or better in English Language Arts and just 20% proficient or better in Mathematics. Additionally, 60% of students at South Fork Elementary School were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2023-2024 school year, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population.
Despite the school's relatively low performance, the South Fork School District 14 spends slightly more per student than the state average, at $12,143 per student in the 2023-2024 school year. The school also has a student-teacher ratio of 15.9, which is slightly lower than the state average. However, these additional resources do not appear to be translating into improved academic outcomes for the students at South Fork Elementary School.
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