Rockford Sun

Test results show 17.8% of Winnebago County students passed the Mathematics portion of the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) test in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

The number of Winnebago County students who succeeded rose by 14.9% compared to the previous school year.

Woodford County County had the highest success rate across the state, with 44.1% of its students passing the Mathematics portion of the IAR. Schools in Alexander County County, on the other hand, performed the worst, with 95.8% of students failing to meet test requirements.

The IAR measures how well students in grades 3-8 are progressing in meeting the English Language Arts and Mathematics standards set by Illinois.

Based on their reading scores on the NAEP, public school students from Illinois managed to stay relatively on par with the national level, according to the National Center for Education and Statistics.

Assessment participation rates in 2023 are at or above the 95% testing threshold, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

School	Students who met standards (%)	Students who exceed standards (%)	Total enrollment
Thurgood Marshall School	62.7%	18.2%	471
Prairie Hill Elementary School	60.4%	11.9%	446
Stone Creek School	47.7%	11.7%	375
Durand Elementary School	43.5%	1.6%	257
Whitman Post Elementary School	40%	9.2%	530
Willowbrook Middle School	36.6%	12.9%	303
Pecatonica Elementary School	34%	2%	321
Kinnikinnick School	33.8%	4.5%	380
Stephen Mack Middle School	33.3%	6.5%	485
Shirland Community Consolidated School	32.8%	10.4%	100
Pecatonica Community Middle School	32.6%	2.5%	283
Roscoe Middle School	31.7%	4.3%	571
Olson Park Elementary School	31.1%	6.2%	339
Jean McNair Elementary School	30.3%	1.1%	276
Winnebago Middle School	26.1%	2.3%	295
Spring Creek Elementary School	22.1%	1.3%	493
Ralston Elementary School	21.3%	1.5%	285
Montessori Elementary School	20.7%	1.5%	601
Loves Park Elementary School	19.9%	0.5%	329
Durand Junior High School	17.1%	1.2%	85
Cherry Valley Elementary School	16.8%	1%	630
Machesney Elementary School	16.7%	0%	364
Black Hawk Elementary School	16.3%	0.8%	121
Brookview Elementary School	15.7%	2.1%	490
Harlem Middle School	14.6%	2.1%	965
Haskell Elementary School	14.5%	0%	252
Clifford P. Carlson Elementary School	14.3%	0%	361
Rock Cut Elementary School	13.9%	1.8%	413
South Beloit Junior High School	11.8%	0%	165
Marquette Elementary School	11.4%	3.4%	264
Windsor Elementary School	11.3%	0%	340
Maple Elementary School	10.3%	1.8%	371
Riverview Elementary School	9.7%	0%	186
Rolling Green Elementary School	9.1%	1.4%	531
Arthur Froberg Elementary School	8.7%	0.5%	403
Eisenhower Middle School	8.3%	0.1%	936
Swan Hillman Elementary School	7.9%	0%	587
Legacy Academy of Excellence Charter School	7.8%	1.7%	209
West View Elementary School	7.8%	0%	444
Gregory Elementary School	6.9%	0%	459
Barbour Two-Way Language Immersion	6.3%	0%	686
C. Henry Bloom Elementary School	5.7%	0%	374
Whitehead Elementary School	4.9%	0.3%	613
Maud E. Johnson Elementary School	4.5%	0.6%	384
Julia Lathrop Elementary School	4.4%	0%	331
Riverdahl Elementary School	4.3%	1.3%	555
Bernard W. Flinn Middle School	4.3%	0.1%	850
Jackson Charter School	3.8%	0%	215
Washington Elementary School	3.7%	0%	493
Conklin Elementary School	3.5%	0.6%	391
R.K. Welsh Elementary School	3.4%	0%	439
Galapagos Rockford Charter School	3.3%	0%	359
Constance Lane Elementary School	2.3%	0%	557
Rockford Environmental Science Academy	1.8%	0%	1,097
West Middle School	1.7%	0%	942
Abraham Lincoln Middle School	1.7%	0%	674
McIntosh Elementary School	1.4%	0%	341
Lewis Lemon Elementary School	0.8%	0%	341
Ellis Elementary School	0.6%	0%	373
Kennedy Middle School	0.3%	0%	457