Summary:
Urbana School District 116 in Illinois has only one middle school, Urbana Middle School, which serves students in grades 6-8. The school's performance has been consistently low, ranking in the bottom 15-20% of Illinois middle schools over the past few years and earning a 1 out of 5-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Urbana Middle School faces significant challenges, including a high chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4% and proficiency rates in English language arts, math, and science that are well below the state averages. In the 2024-2025 school year, the school's ELA proficiency rates ranged from 17.3% to 24.2%, compared to the state average of 53.1% to 56.7%, while math proficiency rates were between 10.1% and 14.8%, compared to the state average of 32.7% to 37%. The school's 8th-grade science proficiency rate was 23.4%, compared to the state average of 45.4%.
Despite the relatively high per-student spending of $18,114 in the 2023-2024 school year and a low student-teacher ratio of 12.1 to 1, Urbana School District 116 has not been able to translate these resources into strong academic outcomes for Urbana Middle School. The school's challenges appear to be multifaceted, involving factors such as high economic disadvantage, with over 75% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, and persistent low achievement across core subject areas.
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