Summary:
Stark County CUSD 100 district has only one elementary school, Stark County Elementary School, which serves grades PK-5 with a total enrollment of 308 students. The school's performance has declined in recent years, with a statewide ranking of 1435 out of 2056 Illinois elementary schools for the 2024-2025 school year and a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Stark County Elementary School lags behind the state averages in academic proficiency for both English Language Arts (33.1% vs. 53.1%) and Mathematics (23.3% vs. 38.5%), though its 5th-grade Science proficiency rate of 42.2% is slightly higher than the state average of 40.6%. The school faces challenges with a high chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4% and a free and reduced-price lunch rate of 36.36%, indicating a significant population of students from low-income families.
Despite the higher per-student spending of $12,718 and a relatively small student-teacher ratio of 13.8, the academic performance of Stark County Elementary School remains below the state averages. This suggests the need for the school to evaluate the effectiveness of its resource allocation and implement targeted strategies to address the identified areas of concern, such as declining performance, socioeconomic challenges, and the need to improve student outcomes.
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