Blackhawk’s public schools score below 83% of Illinois districts
The public schools Blackhawk’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 83% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
How Blackhawk compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Illinois’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2018.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Illinois only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Blackhawk (some depend on your address).
Parts of Blackhawk are served by Moline-Coal Valley School District 40.
Two districts serve Blackhawk
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Well below the state in reading
Blackhawk vs. its neighbors
Blackhawk’s schools rank 8th of 11 among the towns that share its borders. School Grade, by percentile among Illinois districts.
Every school in Blackhawk
2 schools. Grades are ours, from state tests and graduation. Stars are from neighbors.
Parents talk
What Blackhawk families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Blackhawk
There’s no college in Blackhawk, but 8 are within 30 miles. The closest is Trinity College of Nursing & Health Sciences in Rock Island, 3.6 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Blackhawk. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Illinois. Stars are from neighbors.