Summary:
Waverly School District 14-5 has one listed elementary school, Waverly-South Shore Elementary - 02, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 with 128 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was 48% in ELA and 40% in math, compared with 49% and 44% statewide; chronic absenteeism was 7%, below the district’s 13% and the state’s 20%. The most important overall finding is that both subjects improved substantially from the prior year and moved much closer to state results, especially ELA.
There is no top or bottom school to compare because the list includes only one; differences show up across grades instead. Third-grade math was the school’s strongest grade-subject result, at 62% compared with 52% statewide—a 10-point lead. Fifth-grade math was weakest, at 26% versus 43% statewide, a 16-point shortfall. ELA was more consistent with state results: grade 3 was 38%, 5 points below the state; grade 4 was 50%, 2 points above; and grade 5 was 53%, 2 points above. These grade patterns show why the overall averages do not tell the whole story.
Year over year, all-grades ELA rose from 31% in 2024–2025 to 48% in 2025–2026, while math increased from 29% to 40%; the state ELA result declined slightly and state math changed little. Fifth-grade science was a notable exception: it fell from 38% to 32%, while the state rose from 41% to 41%, widening the school’s shortfall to 10 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 30th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026, compared with the 28th percentile and 1 star in 2024–2025; its 2023–2024 ranking was the 19th percentile with 1 star. The 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 11.4:1, and 51% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. With only one school listed, these figures cannot show differences between schools in the district.
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