Summary:
Zip code 61817 has one elementary school, Salt Fork North Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade and enrolling 274 students. In 2025–26, its all-grades proficiency was 45% in ELA and 30% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide; fifth-grade science proficiency was 37%, versus 48% statewide. The most important finding is that the school was below the state in all three reported current-year measures.
Results vary notably by grade: fourth grade is the clearest bright spot, while third-grade ELA and math and fifth-grade ELA are weaker than state results. Fourth-grade ELA was 64%, 8 points above the state, and fourth-grade math was 50%, also 8 points above. In contrast, third-grade ELA was 30%, 18 points below the state, and third-grade math was 32%, 17 points below; fifth-grade ELA was 42%, 13 points below. Relative to the Salt Fork Community Unit District 512, the school was 3 points higher in all-grades math, but 5 points lower in all-grades ELA and 12 points lower in fifth-grade science. Fifth-grade math proficiency is suppressed, so no school figure is available for that measure.
Recent changes are mixed, with broad ELA and math results weakening even as state results rose. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, the school’s all-grades ELA fell from 49% to 45%, while the state rose from 53% to 56%; the ELA gap widened by 7 points. Math fell from 33% to 30% as the state increased from 39% to 40%, widening the gap by 5 points. Fifth-grade science improved from 28% to 37%, and its gap with the state narrowed by 2 points, though it remained 12 points below the district. SchoolDigger gives Salt Fork North 2 stars and ranks it in the 33rd percentile, 1,168th of 1,737 schools, in 2025–26; its percentile rose from 36 to 45, then fell to 33. Other context includes a 13.5:1 student-teacher ratio and 49% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. Chronic absenteeism was a positive contrast: 4% in 2025–26, compared with 12% in the district and 24% statewide.
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