Summary:
ZIP code 42372 has one listed school, Marie Gatton Phillips Elementary, serving grades PK–5 with 115 students in the McLean County district. Its 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism rate was 14%, compared with 22% in the district and 24% statewide. The clearest achievement highlight is fifth-grade writing: 50% of students were proficient, 15 percentage points above the state rate.
Because there is only one listed school, there is no local school-to-school ranking or comparison. Compared with state results, the school’s strongest subject-and-grade results were fifth-grade writing, 15 points above the state; third-grade math, 13 points above; and fifth-grade reading, 10 points above. Its clearest relative weakness was fifth-grade social studies, where 33% were proficient versus 38% statewide, a 5-point gap. Fifth-grade math and third-grade reading were each 1 point above the state, while fifth-grade editing and mechanics was 2 points above.
Results improved in most comparable measures from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, though editing and mechanics fell sharply. Third-grade math rose from 41% to 56%, fifth-grade math from 30% to 44%, and fifth-grade reading from 45% to 61%; social studies increased from 30% to 33%. By contrast, editing and mechanics dropped from 65% to 50%, leaving the school just 2 points above the state in the latest year. SchoolDigger ranked the school 244 of 684 in 2025–2026, at the 64th percentile with 3 stars, up from 401 of 685, the 41st percentile and 2 stars, in 2024–2025. The student–teacher ratio was 13.5 to 1 in 2024–2025, and 70% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year; these figures provide context, not an explanation for achievement results.
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