Summary:
The 61834 zip code area in Illinois is home to two elementary schools - Southwest Elementary School and Meade Park Elementary School. Both schools serve students from pre-kindergarten through 5th grade and are part of the Danville CCSD 118 district.
Based on the available data, neither Southwest Elementary nor Meade Park Elementary can be considered standout schools. Both institutions have consistently ranked in the bottom quartile of Illinois elementary schools over the past three years, with very low proficiency rates in English Language Arts and Mathematics on the state assessments. For the 2024-2025 school year, only 19.4% of students at Southwest Elementary and 20% at Meade Park Elementary were proficient or better in ELA, while in Math, the proficiency rates were 14.3% and 14.7%, respectively. These figures are well below the state averages.
Further analysis reveals that both schools serve a high proportion of economically disadvantaged students, with over 90% of their student populations qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. Additionally, the schools face challenges with chronic absenteeism, with 25.4% of students being chronically absent. Despite the relatively high per-student spending (around $22,000 per student) and student-teacher ratios (15.5 and 16.8), the schools have struggled to improve student outcomes, suggesting that simply increasing funding may not be the sole solution to the performance issues. The district-level challenges, with Danville CCSD 118 ranked 783 out of 811 districts in Illinois, may also be contributing to the low performance of these individual schools.
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