Summary:
Zip code 62939 has one listed elementary school, Goreville Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 464 students. In 2025–26, its all-grades results were below state results in both English language arts (ELA), 51% versus 56%, and math, 37% versus 40%. There is no other listed school for a school-to-school comparison. The most important finding is the sharp contrast between strong math results in grades 3–5 and weaker results in seventh-grade ELA and eighth-grade science.
Within the school, grades 3–5 math stood out: results exceeded state figures by 23 points in grade 3, 9 points in grade 4, and 27 points in grade 5. The weakest comparisons were seventh-grade ELA, 23 points below the state, and eighth-grade science, also 23 points below. Results varied in other grades, too: ELA was above state results in grades 3, 5, and 6, but below in grades 4, 7, and 8. Fifth-grade science was 12 points above the state. These differences show why the school-wide averages do not describe the experience in every grade.
Recent results moved closer to state results in all-grades ELA and math: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA rose from 45% to 51%, and math from 36% to 37; the state-relative gaps narrowed by 3 points and less than a point, respectively. Science trends differed by grade: fifth-grade results climbed from 41% to 59%, while eighth-grade results fell from 35% to 29%. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for the school rose from 55 in 2023–24 to 61 in 2025–26. For context, the 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 17.6, and 34% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. In 2025–26, chronic absenteeism was 12%, below the district’s 15% and the state’s 24%.
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