Summary:
The elementary-school list for District 50 Schools contains one school: J L Hensey Elementary School, serving PK–3 and enrolling 262 students. Its 2025–2026 all-grades results were below state results in both subjects: about 40% met expectations in ELA compared with 56% statewide, and 35% in math compared with 40% statewide. The most important finding is that the school’s ELA result was 17 points below the state, while its math result was 5 points below.
J L Hensey is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in this list by default; with no other schools to compare, that does not show how it ranks among schools across District 50 Schools. In third grade, its math result was 35%, 15 points below the state’s 49%; its ELA result was 40%, 8 points below the state’s 48%. That makes third-grade math a larger state-relative shortfall than the all-grades math comparison suggests. The list includes only one school, so it cannot show differences among schools in the area.
Results changed in mixed ways from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA fell from 43% to 40%, while math rose from 29% to 35%. State results rose in both subjects, so the ELA gap widened from 10 to 17 points, while the math gap narrowed from 10 to 5 points; math is now the closer subject, though the school remained below the state in both. Chronic absenteeism was 12% in 2025–2026, compared with 24% statewide and 12% in the district. For context, the school had a 12.4 student–teacher ratio and 58% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. SchoolDigger’s rating and ranking are for the district, not this individual school: one star, rank 564 of 738, in the 24th percentile.
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