Summary:
Zip code 62288 has two schools: Steeleville Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 with 323 students, and Steeleville High School, serving grades 9–12 with 148 students. The main takeaway is a mixed picture: elementary results improved and are now near state levels, while the high school’s strong grades 9–10 results contrast with weaker grade 11 results.
The high school stands out in grades 9–10 PreACT: averaging those grades, proficiency was 68% in ELA, 51% in math, and 53% in science—11, 12, and 5 percentage points above state averages, respectively. Grade 11 ACT results were below state levels in all three subjects: 46% in ELA, 32% in math, and 46% in science, trailing by 4, 8, and 2 points. At the elementary school, all-grades proficiency was 52% in ELA and 36% in math, below state levels by 4 points in each subject. Grade 4 ELA was a bright spot at 68%, 12 points above state, while grade 7 ELA was 39%, 19 points below.
Elementary scores are moving up: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, all-grades ELA rose 13 points and math rose 9 points, narrowing the school’s gaps with the state. By contrast, grade 11 ACT ELA fell 15 points and math fell 17 points over the reported years. SchoolDigger rankings improved from the 24th to the 51st percentile for the elementary school and from the 39th to the 70th for the high school, but those gains do not mean every test score rose. The high school has a lower student-teacher ratio (12.8 versus 15.2); in 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible students were 37% there and 43% at the elementary school. These are contextual observations, not explanations for achievement. Because the schools serve different grades, their achievement results should not be treated as a head-to-head ranking.
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