Summary:
ZIP code 62034 has two elementary schools in Edwardsville CUSD 7: Glen Carbon Elementary School serves PK–2, and Albert Cassens Elementary serves grades 3–5, covering elementary grades from prekindergarten through fifth grade. Together they enroll 795 students. The most notable achievement result is Cassens’s strong showing against Illinois, especially in math and fifth-grade science, where it scored 15 and 16 percentage points above the state.
Cassens has the strongest reported results in math and fifth-grade science: 54% of students were proficient in math, 15 points above Illinois, and 64% in science, 16 points above the state. Its all-grades ELA result was 62%, 6 points above Illinois but 6 points below the district; math was close to the district, 1 point higher, while science was 1 point lower. Results vary notably by grade: third-grade ELA was 42%, 6 points below the state and 13 below the district, while fourth- and fifth-grade ELA were 71% and 70%, each 15 points above the state. Cassens is the only school with supplied test scores, so the data cannot show which school has stronger achievement.
Cassens improved in each reported subject from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose 5 percentage points, math 3, and fifth-grade science 8; its advantage over the state also widened slightly in all three. SchoolDigger ranks Cassens 613 of 1,737, at the 65th percentile with 3 stars; its percentile rose from 60 in 2023–2024 to 69 the following year, then declined to 65. Attendance is favorable at both schools: chronic absenteeism was 6% at Cassens and 9% at Glen Carbon, compared with 15% for the district and 24% statewide. Their student-teacher ratios are similar at 17.3 and 16.7. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 20% at Cassens and 17% at Glen Carbon; these figures are context, not an explanation of outcomes.
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