Summary
Schuyler Industry Middle School enrolls 252 students in grades 5–8 in Rushville, Illinois. Its clearest challenge is English Language Arts: in 2025–26, 29% of students were proficient, below the state, district, and every nearby school with comparable results.
ELA is the school’s weakest comparison, while math is relatively stronger but still trails the state and district. ELA proficiency was 29%, compared with 56% statewide and 33% in the Schuyler-Industry CUSD 5; nearby results ranged from 37% at Brown County Middle School to 58% at V I T Junior High School. Math proficiency was 23%, versus 40% statewide and 25% in the district. That score is close to the nearby-school average of 27%, and slightly above V I T and Astoria Junior High School, but below Brown County. Science varies by grade: grade 5 reached 50%, above the state and district result of 48%, while grade 8 was 41%, below their 52%. Chronic absenteeism is a relative bright spot: 13% in 2025–26, compared with 24% statewide.
Test results have improved, especially in ELA, but the school remains well below state results. From 2023–24 to 2025–26, ELA rose 17 points, from 11% to 29%; its gap with the state narrowed by just 2 points. Math rose 9 points, from 13% to 23%, while its gap with the state widened by 2 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school 1,004th of 1,126 Illinois schools in 2025–26, at the 11th percentile with 1 star; its percentile was 20 in 2024–25 and 49 in 2018–19. In 2024–25, 56% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, and the student-teacher ratio was 13.6. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for how well the school serves “White Students” was at the 1st percentile in 2025–26, compared with the school’s overall 11th percentile. Its ranking for how well it serves “Special Education Students” improved from the 11th percentile in 2023–24 to the 33rd in 2024–25.
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