Summary:
Winchester CUSD 1 has one elementary school, Winchester Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8, so families can compare its results with Illinois but not with other schools in the district. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades English language arts (ELA) proficiency was 65%, compared with 56% statewide, while math was 38%, compared with 40% statewide. The most important finding is that ELA is a relative strength, but the overall math figure hides weaker results in the upper grades.
There is no school-to-school top or bottom in this one-school area; by grade, however, results show clear strengths and exceptions. ELA was above the state rate in five of six tested grades, led by grade 3 at 71% versus 48%, a 23-point advantage. Grade 5 was the exception: 42% were proficient, 13 points below the state’s 55%. Math was above the state in grades 3–5, including a 12-point advantage in grade 3, but below it in grades 6–8; grade 8 was 23% versus 35%, a 12-point gap. This unevenness means the all-grades averages do not describe every grade equally well.
Schoolwide results rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA increased from 59% to 65%, and its advantage over the state widened from 6 to 8 points. Math rose from 36% to 38%, and its gap to the state narrowed from 2 points below to 2 points below. Science results also diverged: grade 8 improved from 50% to 68%, while grade 5 moved from 42% to 44% and from above the state rate to below it. SchoolDigger placed the school at the 63rd percentile in 2023–2024, 61st in 2024–2025, and 52nd in 2025–2026. Context figures include a 13.9-to-1 student–teacher ratio and 48% of students free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was 18% in 2025–2026, below the state’s 24% but slightly above the district’s 17%.
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