A look at the data from Illinois public schools for 2024 finds not a single child rated proficient in math in 80 schools and in 24 schools no child was proficient in reading.
Despite these dismal numbers, 70 percent of students were graduated to their next grade in 2024, according to the data reviewed by Wirepoints.
The numbers also show more than 18,000 Illinois students among its more than 4,000 schools were not proficient in basic education at age levels.
The majority of schools that failed students so badly were in the Chicago Public School system. Some were in the metropolitan area on the Illinois side across from St. Louis, some in Kankakee, just south of Chicago, and Peoria also found some of its schools on this list of failure.
While those numbers represent the worst of the worst in the Land of Lincoln, the data is still discouraging by raising the proficiency percentage. For instance, in 307 of the state’s schools, fewer than ten percent of children can read at level. It is worse in math where less than ten percent are at level in math in 853 schools. Taken as a whole, nine percent of all Illinois kids in grades 3-12 cannot read well and 24 percent are lacking in math skills.
Education in Illinois has gotten worse since COVID, as well. In 2019, before the school closings started over the virus, there were 21 schools that had no children reading at level and 37 with none proficient in math. By 2024, those numbers grew to 24 and 80.
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