The figures are in: ISBE designations for 147 schools in the area

Wednesday was report card day for public schools statewide, which received their official designation from the Illinois State Board of Education based on their performance in a range of categories during the 2023-2024 school year. ¶ Here’s a quick look at how each school in the area was ranked, plus definitions for all five groups: exemplary, commendable, purposeful, comprehensive and intensive. ¶ Much more awaits in the upcoming edition of “Meeting Minutes & More.”

EXAMPLE

Defined by ISBE as schools performing in the top 10 percent statewide with no underperforming student groups.

Cissna Park Junior High
Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High
Mahomet-Seymour High
Prairieview-Ogden Junior High
St. Joseph High School
Villa Grove Elementary

commendable

Defined by ISBE as schools without underperforming student bodies, a graduation rate greater than 67 percent, and whose performance is not in the top 10 percent of schools statewide.

Arcola High, Arcola Elementary
Armstrong Township High, Armstrong-Ellis Elementary School
ALAH High, Arthur Elementary School, Atwood-Hammond Elementary School, Lovington Elementary School
Bement High, Bement Middle School, Bement Elementary
Bismarck-Henning Rossville-Alvin High, BH Elementary, BH Junior High
Blue Ridge High, Blue Ridge Junior High, Schneider Elementary
Cerro Gordo Jr./Sr. High, Cerro Gordo Elementary School
Champaign Barkstall Elementary, Centennial High, Edison Middle School, International Prep Academy, Jefferson Middle School, South Side Elementary, Westview Elementary
Chrisman High, Chrisman Elementary, Chrisman-Scottland Junior High
Cissna Park High, Cissna Park Elementary
Clinton High, Clinton Junior High, Clinton Elementary, Lincoln Elementary
Danville High, Edison Elementary, Liberty Elementary, North Ridge Middle School, Northeast Elementary, Southwest Elementary
DeLand-Weldon High, DW Elementary, DW Middle School
Fisher Junior/Senior High, Fisher Elementary School
Georgetown-Ridge Farm High, Mary Miller Junior High, Pine Crest Elementary
GCMS Middle School, GCMS Elementary
Gifford Elementary School
Heritage high
Hoopeston Area High, Hoopeston Area Middle School, John Greer Elementary, Maple Elementary
Iroquois West High, IW Middle School, IW Elementary
Kansas High, Kansas Elementary
LeRoy High, LeRoy Junior High, LeRoy Elementary
Mahomet-Seymour Junior High, Lincoln Trail Elementary, Prairie Elementary
Milford High, Milford Primary School
Monticello High, Monticello Middle School, Washington Elementary, White Heath Elementary
Oakland High, Lake Crest Elementary
Oak High
Prairieview-Ogden North Elementary, South Elementary
Paxton-Buckley-Loda High, PBL Junior High, Clara Peterson Elementary
Potomac Elementary
Rantoul Township High, JW Eater Junior High
St. Joseph Elementary, St. Joseph-Ogden High
Salt Fork High, North Elemental, South Elemental
Shiloh High, Shiloh Elementary
Sullivan High, Sullivan High School
Thomasboro Elementary School
Tuscola High, East Prairie Middle School, North Ward Elementary
Unity High, Unity Junior High, East Elementary, West Elementary
Urbana High
Villa Grove High, Villa Grove Junior High
Watseka High, Watseka Junior High, Raymond Elementary
Westville High, Westville Junior High, Judith Giacoma Elementary

FOCUSED

Defined by ISBE as schools with one or more student groups at or below the level of the ‘all students’ group in the lowest performing 5 percent of schools.

Champaign Bottenfield Elementary, Carrie Busey Elementary, Central High, Franklin STEAM Academy, Kenwood Elementary
Clinton Douglas Elementary
Danville Meade Park Elementary
Heritage Junior High/Elementary
Oakwood Elementary School
Rantoul Broadmeadow Elementary, Eastlawn Elementary, Northview Elementary, Pleasant Acres Elementary
Rossville-Alvin Elementary
Salt fork Junior High
Sullivan Elementary
Urbana Leal Elementary

EXTENDED

Defined by ISBE as schools in the lowest performing 5 percent in Illinois; high schools with a graduation rate of less than 67 percent or less; schools that have completed a full targeted school improvement cycle, where the performance of one or more of the originally targeted groups remains at or below the level of the ‘all students’ group in the lowest performing 5 percent of schools at the end of the school term. the four-year improvement cycle.

Champaign Booker T. Washington STEM Academy, Dr. Howard Elementary, Garden Hills Academy, Robeson Elementary, Stratton Academy for the Arts
Danville Mark Denman Elementary, South View Elementary
Iroquois West Elementary
Ludlow Elementary
Urbana Dr. King Elementary, Urbana Middle School, Thomas Paine Elementary

INTENSIVE

Defined by ISBE as schools that have completed a full comprehensive school improvement cycle but whose performance remains among the lowest performing 5 percent of schools statewide or high schools with a graduation rate of less than 67 percent or less at the end of the four years. annual improvement cycle.

Urbana Dr. Williams Elementary

Note: Urbana’s Yankee Ridge Elementary has not received a designation from ISBE. It is being considered a new school entity, the district said, “due to the reallocation and reorganization of our Spanish and French bilingual programs to create the new Yankee Ridge Multilingual School.”