Summary:
ZIP code 62998 has one listed elementary school, Shawnee Elementary School, which serves prekindergarten through grade 5 and has 136 students. With no other school in the ZIP code to compare, its results are best viewed against the district and Illinois. The main concern is all-grades ELA: in 2025–26, 32% of students were proficient, compared with 43% in Shawnee CUSD 84 and 56% statewide—gaps of 11 and 25 percentage points.
Shawnee’s strongest result is fifth-grade ELA, while its all-grades ELA score is a broader area of concern. In 2025–26, 63% of fifth graders were proficient, 8 points above Illinois and equal to the district. The contrast matters: the fifth-grade result is a bright spot, but it does not reflect the lower all-grades result. Attendance is another favorable comparison: chronic absenteeism was 15% at Shawnee, versus 21% in the district and 24% statewide in 2025–26.
All-grades ELA improved from 20% in 2024–25 to 32% in 2025–26, an 11-point increase; the state gap narrowed by 8 points, although the district’s score rose by 14 points over the same period. In 2024–25, math proficiency was 10% at Shawnee and 39% statewide, while ELA was 20% and 53%, respectively; the math gap was 4 points smaller. Fifth-grade science was 14%, compared with 41% statewide. SchoolDigger ranked Shawnee in the 7th percentile with zero stars in 2024–25, after the 4th percentile in 2023–24 and 16th percentile in 2022–23. The school reported a 17.8 student–teacher ratio and 60% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. This list includes only one school, and the 2025–26 all-grades math and fifth-grade science results are suppressed.
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