Summary:
West Chicago Education Service District 33 includes six schools: five elementary schools serving kindergarten through grade 5 and one middle school serving grades 6–8. In 2025–2026, the elementary schools’ average proficiency was 35% in ELA and 28% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide; Leman Middle School was also below state results in both subjects. The most important overall finding is that proficiency at the area’s schools generally trails the state, particularly in elementary ELA.
Gary Elementary School leads the elementary schools in both all-grades subjects, with 46% in ELA and 32% in math. Its ELA result is 14 points above the other four schools’ average, while its math result is 5 points higher. At the other end, Wegner Elementary School has the lowest ELA result, 24%—14 points below the other schools’ average—and Currier Elementary School has the lowest math result, 23%, 5 points below the others’ average. Results can differ by grade: Gary’s fourth-grade ELA was 58%, above the state’s 56%, and Turner Elementary School’s fifth-grade math was 37%, above the state’s 36%.
Over time, elementary ELA was essentially unchanged on average from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while math fell 3 points, from 30% to 28%; state results rose 3 points in ELA and 1 in math. Individual schools varied, and fifth-grade science improved at three of the four schools with results in both years, while Turner’s result fell. SchoolDigger percentile rankings declined for all six schools from 2023–2024 to 2025–2026, including Wegner from 36 to 9 and Gary from 43 to 28. In 2024–2025, elementary student–teacher ratios ranged from 11.6 to 13.2, and free/reduced lunch eligible shares ranged from 59% to 72%. Gary had the highest ratio and lowest eligible share; Turner had 71% eligible yet the second-highest all-grades math result. These figures describe patterns, not causes.
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