Summary:
Zip code 60970 includes two elementary schools in Watseka, in Iroquois County CUSD 9, serving grades pre-K through 5: Wanda Kendall Elementary School serves pre-K–kindergarten, and Glenn Raymond School serves grades 1–5. The supplied test results are for Glenn Raymond only; Wanda Kendall has no scores, so the schools cannot be fairly ranked against each other. Glenn Raymond’s clearest concern is math: in 2025–2026, 23% of students were proficient across grades, 17 percentage points below the state’s 40%.
Glenn Raymond’s results are strongest in fifth-grade science and ELA, but weakest in math. Fifth-grade science proficiency was 71%, 24 points above the state’s 48%, while fifth-grade ELA was 67%, 12 points above the state’s 55%. In contrast, math proficiency was below the state in every reported grade; fourth grade was the lowest, at 15% versus 42%, a 27-point gap. Overall ELA was 51%, below the state’s 56% and the district’s 59%. These results show a notable subject and grade-level contrast, not a consistent advantage across the school.
Recent results moved in different directions: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Glenn Raymond’s all-grades ELA rose from 45% to 51%, narrowing its state gap by 2 points, while math fell from 32% to 23% and its state gap widened by 10 points. Fifth-grade science rose from 55% to 71%, with the school’s advantage over the state growing by 9 points. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking for Glenn Raymond declined from 52nd in 2023–2024 to 38th in 2025–2026, a 14-point drop. As context, 68% of Glenn Raymond students and 78% of Wanda Kendall students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; student-teacher ratios were 12.5 and 13.2, respectively. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 15% at Glenn Raymond and 25% at Wanda Kendall.
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