Summary:
In zip code 62939, two schools in Goreville CUD 1 serve students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Goreville Elementary School enrolls 464 students in PK–8, and Goreville High School enrolls 166 in grades 9–12. Because the schools serve different grade spans, a single score ranking would be misleading. The most important takeaway is that results vary substantially by grade and subject within both schools, rather than showing one consistent pattern of strength or weakness.
Goreville Elementary stands out in tested math for grades 3–5: its proficiency rates were 23 points above the state in grade 3, 9 points above in grade 4 and 27 points above in grade 5; grade-5 science was also 12 points above. Its clearest shortfalls were grade-7 ELA and grade-8 science, each 23 points below the state. Goreville High’s clearest bright spot was grade-11 ACT, where ELA, math and science were 10, 1 and 8 points above the state, respectively. Its grade-10 ELA and science results were 14 and 22 points below the state, and grade-9 science was 12 points below. SchoolDigger ranked Elementary at the 61st percentile and High at the 50th percentile in 2025–2026.
Recent results also differ by grade and measure. Elementary’s all-grades ELA proficiency rose from 45% to 51% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while math rose from 36% to 37%; at High, grade-11 ACT results improved in all three subjects, but grade-10 ELA and science declined. SchoolDigger’s rank percentile rose from the 55th to the 61st for Elementary and from the 43rd to the 50th for High since 2023–2024. As context, Elementary’s 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 17.6 to 1, compared with 10.0 to 1 at High; free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 34% and 45%, respectively. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 12% at Elementary and 21% at High.
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