Summary:
Elementary education in Zeigler-Royalton CUSD 188 is represented by one school, Zeigler-Royalton Elementary School, which serves prekindergarten through grade 5 and enrolls 258 students. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades proficiency was 30% in English language arts (ELA) and 21% in math, compared with state results of 56% and 40%. The most important finding is that ELA is the school’s largest current state gap: proficiency was 26 points below the state.
Because this is the only school in the list, there are no local top and bottom schools to compare; the school is both. Its strongest result relative to the state was fifth-grade science, where 44% were proficient, 4 points below the state. Its weakest relative result was all-grades ELA, 26 points below the state; all-grades math was 19 points below. Compared with the district, the school was essentially level in ELA (30% versus 31%) and 4 points higher in math (21% versus 17%). So, although both all-grades subjects were below state results, math was the stronger of the two against its state benchmark.
Results moved in different directions over time: all-grades ELA proficiency fell 10 points, from 40% in 2024–2025 to 30% in 2025–2026, while the state rose 3 points. Fifth-grade science improved 17 points, from 27% to 44%, narrowing the state gap from 14 points to 4. Math edged up from 21% to 21%; the increase was 0.6 points, while the state rose 1.1 points. SchoolDigger gives the school 1 star and ranks it 1,428 of 1,737 schools (18th percentile) in 2025–2026. Context figures include an 11.3 student–teacher ratio and 73% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. With just one school, these figures cannot be compared across schools in the area.
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