Schools · Blue Island

Blue Island, IL schools

Blue Island’s public schools score well below Illinois’s averages: 20% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 87% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend one of 4 elementary schools through grade 5, then Veterans Memorial Middle Sch or Nathan Hale Middle School or Everett F Kerr Middle School and A B Shepard High Sch (Campus) or DD Eisenhower High Sch (Campus) or H L Richards High Sch(Campus).

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

CSchool Grade #408Highest graduation rate in IL (of 635)

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Blue Island’s School Grade: C

The public schools Blue Island’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 67% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

CTest scoresCGraduation

Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 33%

Lower resultsHigher results

Illinois towns with similar household incomes (1,241)Better than 36%

High confidence. Built on 1,436 tested students and a graduating class of 1,389; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Illinois’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2018.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Illinois only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Illinois with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why 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.

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Where Blue Island kids go to school

Grades PK–5

4 elementary schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Cook County School District 130

Grades 6–8

BVeterans Memorial Middle Sch or D-Nathan Hale Middle School or D-Everett F Kerr Middle School Depends on your address Cook County School District 130

Grades 9–12

B-A B Shepard High Sch (Campus) or CDD Eisenhower High Sch (Campus) or C+H L Richards High Sch(Campus) Depends on your address Community High School District 218

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21