Summary:
Zeigler-Royalton CUSD 188 has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: an elementary school, a junior high and a high school, with enrollments from 100 to 258 students. The latest results show a clear contrast: the high school’s reported ACT and graduation results compare favorably with Illinois, while IAR proficiency at both younger schools is well below the state.
Zeigler-Royalton High School stands out most in the latest scores: 59% of 11th graders were proficient in ACT English language arts, about 10 percentage points above the state, and its graduation rate was 96%, about 7 points above Illinois. In the younger grades, Zeigler-Royalton Elementary School had the stronger IAR math result at 21%, compared with 13% at Zeigler-Royalton Junior High School; the state result was 40%. Their all-grades IAR ELA results were nearly even, at 30% and 31%, respectively, versus 56% statewide. Elementary fifth-grade science was a relative bright spot, at 44%, about 4 points below the state.
Recent changes are mixed: IAR ELA fell at both younger schools from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while math rose slightly. Elementary fifth-grade science improved from 27% to 44%. SchoolDigger’s percentile rank rose from 34 to 64 for the high school between 2024–25 and 2025–26, while the elementary school’s fell from 28 to 18; the junior high’s latest listed rank was 26 in 2024–25. As context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligibility was 73% at the elementary school, 63% at the junior high and 57% at the high school; student-teacher ratios ranged from 7.4 to 12.5. Chronic absenteeism was similar across the schools, at 21.1%–21.5%, below the state’s 23.5%. Because the schools serve different grades and their results include different tests, comparisons are most useful within the same test and grade.
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