Rockland

Rockland serves about 2,158 students across four schools spanning pre-kindergarten through 12th grade: R Stewart Esten Early Childhood Center (PK–K, 242 students), Phelps Elementary School (grades 1–4, 639), John W Rogers Middle (grades 5–8, 687), and Rockland Senior High (grades 9–12, 590). The Rockland district as a whole ranks 217 of 351, at the 38th percentile with 2 stars, placing it below the state midpoint. At the school level, Phelps and Rockland Senior High currently hold 2 stars, while John W Rogers Middle holds 3 stars.

Among tested schools, Phelps Elementary School is the strongest overall, with all-grades math proficiency of 41.45%, above the state's 41.11% and well above the district's 35.40%, and fourth grade results above the state in both math and ELA. John W Rogers Middle, the only latest 3-star school, shines in 8th grade Civics (45.16% vs. state 39.77%) and 8th grade Science (40.00% vs. 38.93%), though its all-grades ELA (30.89%) and math (33.44%) trail district and state. Rockland Senior High is sharply uneven: Biology (47.77% vs. state 37.68%) and 10th grade Science are strengths, while 10th grade ELA (33.08% vs. 45.48%) and math (27.13% vs. 43.73%) lag far behind. R Stewart Esten has no current test data because it serves PK–K.

The clearest district-wide concern is that math and ELA performance weakens in later grades, with the high school gaps the largest in the data; graduation is 87.5% (above the district's 85.3%) but the dropout rate of 10.3% is also above the district's 9.8%. Recent rankings trended downward for the three tested schools. Operationally the schools are similar: per-pupil spending (2020–2021) ranges from $17,165 at John W Rogers Middle to $19,902 at Phelps, and student/teacher ratios (2024–2025) range from 11.6 at Esten to 13.5 at Phelps. Free/reduced-lunch figures are blank for every school, so poverty-adjusted comparisons aren't possible, and Esten's older trend reaching 60th percentile in 2022–2023 is its most recent measure.