Summary:
The 62627 zip code has only one elementary school, A-C Central Elementary School, which serves students in this rural area. The school is part of the A-C Central CUSD 262 district, which is ranked 596 out of 811 districts in Illinois and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
A-C Central Elementary School has 131 students and a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 8.6. The school's academic performance is mixed, with stronger results in English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency, where 56.5% of students are proficient or better, compared to the district's 45.9% and the state's 53.1%. However, the school lags behind in Mathematics proficiency, with only 43.5% of students proficient or better, compared to 21.5% for the district and 38.5% for Illinois. The school's chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4% is also higher than the state average.
Despite the school's small class sizes and higher-than-average spending per student of $19,460, its performance has been variable, with the school's statewide ranking fluctuating between 535 out of 2,077 Illinois elementary schools in 2022-2023 (4-star rating) and 1,043 out of 2,067 in 2023-2024 (2-star rating). The school's high percentage of economically disadvantaged students, at 48.09%, may be a contributing factor to its academic challenges, and addressing the chronic absenteeism issue could be a key focus area for improvement.
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