Summary:
ZIP code 61874 has one listed school, Carrie Busey Elementary School, serving grades K–5 with 444 students in Champaign CUSD 4. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades English language arts (ELA) proficiency was 59%, compared with 56% statewide; in mathematics, it was 55%, compared with 40% statewide. The clearest strength is mathematics: the school was 15 percentage points above the state.
There is no meaningful top-or-bottom ranking among ZIP-code schools because Carrie Busey is the only one listed. Its grade-level results show where performance is strongest and where it trails: third-grade ELA was 72%, 24 points above the state, and third-grade mathematics was 75%, 26 points above. Fifth-grade ELA was 48%, 7 points below the state, while fourth-grade ELA was about even, at 56% versus 56%. Mathematics proficiency was above the state in grades 4 and 5 as well, by 3 and 7 points. Fifth-grade science was 51%, 3 points above the state. Overall results therefore do not tell the whole story: proficiency varied considerably by grade, especially in mathematics.
Results rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in all three measures reported for both years: ELA increased 4 percentage points, all-grades mathematics 6 points, and fifth-grade science 10 points. Each gain exceeded the corresponding statewide increase. SchoolDigger lists 3 stars in all three rank-history entries; its reported percentile was 58 in 2025–2026, down from 64 in each of the prior two entries. Other context includes a 14.2:1 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 42% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 18%, below the state’s 24% and the district’s 32%.
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