Summary:
Zip code 61910 has one elementary school, Arcola Elementary School, serving Pre-K through grade 6 with 410 students in Arcola CUSD 306. In 2025–2026, 42% of students were proficient in all-grades ELA, compared with 56% statewide; in mathematics, 20% were proficient, versus 40% statewide. Both results were below state levels, and mathematics had the larger shortfall: 20 percentage points, compared with 15 points in ELA.
Sixth-grade ELA is the school’s clearest bright spot, while third-grade mathematics is its weakest reported comparison. Sixth-grade ELA proficiency was 63%, 4 percentage points above the state’s 59%. By contrast, third-grade mathematics proficiency was 24%, 25 points below the state’s 49%. ELA results in grades 3, 4, and 5 were also below their state comparisons by 17, 13, and 21 points, respectively. The school’s overall results therefore conceal meaningful differences across grades; the strongest reported result is in sixth-grade ELA, not across all grades.
Arcola’s all-grades results fell between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026 while state results rose, widening the gaps in both subjects. ELA fell from 43% to 42%, as the state increased from 53% to 56%; the gap widened by 5 points. Mathematics fell from 26% to 20%, while the state rose from 39% to 40%, widening the gap by 7 points. Fifth-grade science also shifted from 2 points above the state in 2024–2025 to 13 points below in 2025–2026. SchoolDigger ranked Arcola in the 29th percentile in 2023–2024, 41st in 2024–2025, and 21st in 2025–2026. Other context includes a 13:1 student–teacher ratio and 46% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was lower than district and state rates in 2025–2026, at 16% versus 18% and 24%. Because this is the only school listed, there is no local school-to-school comparison.
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