Summary:
Zip code 61418 has one listed elementary school, West Central Elementary School, serving 321 students in grades K–5, so there is no other listed local school for a school-to-school comparison. In 2025–2026, its fifth-grade science proficiency was a bright spot at 63%, compared with 48% statewide, while its all-grades ELA and math rates were lower than the state’s. Most importantly, both all-grades ELA and math proficiency trailed state results: 44% versus 56% in ELA and 26% versus 40% in math.
West Central stands out positively in science and has its largest academic shortfall in math. Its fifth-grade science rate was 16 percentage points above the state’s, while the all-grades ELA and math rates were 12 and 14 points below. The grade-level pattern reinforces that contrast: fourth-grade math was 18% at the school versus 42% statewide, a 24-point gap, while fifth-grade math was 30% versus 36%, a 6-point gap. ELA was also below state rates in grades 3–5, with the smallest gap in fifth grade.
Results moved in different directions over the two years: all-grades ELA rose 13 points, and its gap with the state narrowed by 10 points; math fell 3 points as the state rate rose 1, widening the gap from 10 to 14 points. Fifth-grade science improved from 42% in 2024–2025 to 63% in 2025–2026, while the state rose from 41% to 48%, expanding the school’s advantage from 1 to 16 points. SchoolDigger rates the school 2 stars and places it at the 31st percentile for 2025–2026; its percentile was 29th in 2023–2024 and 33rd in 2024–2025. Other context includes 14% chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026, below the district’s 23% and state’s 24%, an 11.2 student-teacher ratio in sy 2024–2025, and 54% free/reduced lunch eligible in sy 2024–2025.
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