Summary:
Schools in ZIP code 61401 include seven schools—four elementary, two middle, and one high school—serving pre-K through grade 12, with test results available for six. In 2025–2026, the three tested elementary schools averaged 36% in ELA and 28% in math, compared with state averages of 56% and 40%. The most important finding is that these elementary averages were 20 points below the state in ELA and 12 points below in math.
Silas Willard Elementary School led the tested elementary schools, with 46% proficient in ELA and 37% in math; King School was lowest in ELA at 28% and also had the lowest math result, at 20%. Willard’s lead over King was 19 points in ELA and 17 in math, though King’s math result was 1 point above the district’s. At the high school, 11th-grade ACT math was the largest supplied state gap: Galesburg Senior High School was 13 points below the state in math, 6 points below in ELA, and 10 points below in science. The two middle schools’ schoolwide results cover different grades, so they are not direct head-to-head comparisons.
Elementary results changed unevenly: the ELA average edged from 35.5% to 35.9% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while the math average fell from 30% to 28%. Willard gained 7 points in ELA, while Steele School fell 5 points in math; King gained 1 point in math. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 rankings were 30th percentile for Willard, 25th for the high school, 11th for Steele, 7th for Galesburg Junior High School, and 4th for King; these rankings generally declined from 2023–2024 and are not test-score changes. As context, free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025 were 73% at Willard, 77% at Steele, and 87% at King; Willard also had the lowest student-teacher ratio among the tested elementary schools, 11.1 compared with Steele’s 13.2.
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