Summary:
The 61325 zip code is home to a single standout elementary school, Grand Ridge School, which serves grades K-8 and has a total enrollment of 215 students. The school is part of the Grand Ridge CCSD 95 district, which is ranked 213 out of 811 districts in Illinois and has a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Grand Ridge School is a standout institution in the 61325 zip code, consistently outperforming the state average in both English Language Arts and Mathematics on the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) exams across all grade levels. In the 2024-2025 school year, the school's ELA proficiency rate for all grades was 64.9%, compared to the state average of 53.1%, and its Mathematics proficiency rate was 51.1%, compared to the state average of 38.5%. The school's performance on the Illinois Science Assessment (ISA) is more mixed, with 5th-grade students scoring below the state average in 2024-2025, but 8th-grade students scoring above the state average.
The school has a relatively low percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, at 32.56% in the 2023-2024 school year, and a student-teacher ratio of 9.3, which is lower than the state average. Additionally, the school's per-student spending for the 2023-2024 school year was $18,270, which is higher than the state average. These factors suggest that Grand Ridge School has access to sufficient funding and resources to support student learning and development, contributing to its strong academic performance and improving statewide ranking, which has risen from 798 out of 2,056 Illinois elementary schools in 2024-2025 to 319 out of 2,077 in the 2022-2023 school year.
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