Summary:
Zip code 61264 has one listed elementary school, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 6 in Rock Island School District 41. The school’s 2025–2026 results were above district levels in all-grades ELA and math, but below state proficiency in ELA, math, and fifth-grade science. Its strongest statewide comparison was math: 29% proficient, 11 points below the state, versus 36% in ELA, 20 points below, and 28% in fifth-grade science, 20 points below. The most important finding is that the school remains well below state proficiency in every reported subject.
With only one school listed, there is no meaningful area-wide top or bottom school to compare; Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is the sole option in this data set. Compared with the district, however, it was 7 points higher in math (29% versus 22%) and 1 point higher in ELA (36% versus 35%); its fifth-grade science result was 0.2 points lower (27.8% versus 28.0%). Attendance is another comparatively favorable measure: chronic absenteeism was 19%, below the district’s 31% and the state’s 24% in 2025–2026.
Test results improved in ELA and fifth-grade science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while math dipped: ELA rose from 33% to 36%, science from 22% to 28%, and math went from 29.4% to 28.8%. Even so, the school’s state gaps widened in all three subjects; for example, its ELA gap edged from 19.8 to 20.0 points, while its math gap grew from 9 to 11 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking also declined, from the 39th percentile to the 30th and then the 20th, and its stars changed from 2 to 2 to 1. For context, the school enrolled 277 students and had a 12.2 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025; 73% were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. These figures provide context, not an explanation for the school’s results.
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