Aviston Elementary School

Aviston Elementary School serves 462 students in prekindergarten through grade 8 in Aviston, Illinois. In 2025–26, 78% of students were proficient in English Language Arts (ELA) and 73% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide. The school’s clearest strength against nearby schools is math: it scored above the average for nearby schools serving the same grade span.

Compared with five nearby PK–8 schools with reported results, Aviston ranked third of six schools, including itself, in both ELA and math. Its ELA proficiency was 2 points below the nearby average of 81%, while its math result was 6 points above the average of 67%; school and district results matched in both subjects. Science is a relative weakness in local comparisons: grade 5 proficiency was 60%, 7 points below the nearby average, and grade 8 was 69%, 13 points below its nearby average. Both grades were above state results. Within the school, grades 3–5 math stood out, while grade 7 had the lowest reported nearby results in both tested subjects, despite being above the state.

Results rose overall from 2023–24 to 2025–26, but dipped in the latest year: ELA increased 6 points over the period and math 1 point, while both subjects’ advantages over the state narrowed. SchoolDigger ranks Aviston 179th of 1,737 schools, at the 90th percentile with four stars; the Aviston School District 21 ranks 71st of 738 districts, at the 90th percentile with five stars. Aviston’s 17.1 students per teacher in 2024–25 was the highest reported among nearby schools, compared with a nearby average of 12.7. It reported 6% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25, the second-lowest reported share among nearby schools. One notable group-specific change is SchoolDigger’s measure of how well the school serves White students: that group’s statewide percentile fell from 94 in 2023–24 to 78 in 2025–26, compared with a 6-point decline in the overall percentile over the same period.