Summary:
The 61769 zip code is home to a single school, Saunemin Elementary School, which serves grades PK-8 and has a total enrollment of 120 students. The school is part of the Saunemin CCSD 438 district, which is ranked 642 out of 811 districts in Illinois and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Saunemin Elementary School's academic performance is mixed compared to state averages. In 2024-2025, the school's proficiency rates in English Language Arts (ELA) ranged from 35.7% to 50%, while the state average was 53.1%. In Mathematics, the school's proficiency rates ranged from 20% to 37.5%, compared to the state average of 38.5%. However, the school's 5th grade science proficiency rate on the Illinois Science Assessment (ISA) was 50%, higher than the state average of 40.6%. The school's performance has fluctuated over the past few years, with some improvements in ELA but declines in Math proficiency.
The school has a relatively high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, at 56.67% in 2023-2024. Despite the school's low student-teacher ratio of 8:1 and higher-than-average per-student spending of $23,830 in 2023-2024, the academic performance concerns and high chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4% in 2024-2025 suggest that the school may need to re-evaluate its instructional practices and resource allocation to better support student learning and achievement.
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