Schools · Capital
Capital, IL schools
Capital’s public schools score well below Illinois’s averages: 22% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 75% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend one of 17 schools through grade 12, then one of 18 high schools, one of 6 high schools and one of 4 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C
Capital’s School Grade: C
The public schools Capital’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 69% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
B-Test scoresDGraduation
Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 31%
Lower resultsHigher results
Illinois towns with similar household incomes (1,424)Better than 29%
Towns in Sangamon County (26)Better than 12%
High confidence. Built on 6,111 tested students and a graduating class of 1,090; 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.
School path
Where Capital kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well below the state in reading
Reading (grades PK–12, Springfield School District 186)22%
State average 30.7%
Reading (Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 5)32%
State average 30.7%
Math (grades PK–12, Springfield School District 186)17%
State average 25.8%
Math (Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 5)30%
State average 25.8%
Graduation · class of 2018
75% graduate on time
Graduation rate
75%
IL: 87.3%
Graduating class
1,090
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #615 of 635 IL towns →
Districts
Two districts serve Capital
Springfield School District 186Grades PK–12 · 34 schools · 13,014 students
$24,521 per studentIL $21,567DBall-Chatham Community Unit School District 5Grades PK–12 · 6 schools · 4,516 students
$11,190 per studentIL $21,567B+Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 49 schools in Capital
Showing 1–30 of 49 schools
Dubois Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 469 students
D-PublicLindsay SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 438 students
C+PublicIles Elem SchoolElementary · Grades 1–8 · 414 students
A+PublicSpringfield Ball Charter SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 394 students
C+CharterHarvard Park Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 370 students
D-PublicButler Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 367 students
C+PublicRidgely Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 343 students
DPublicOwen Marsh Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 324 students
BPublicFairview Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 302 students
D-PublicFeitshans Elem SchElementary · Grades K–5 · 288 students
D-PublicSandburg Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 279 students
B+PublicEnos Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 245 students
C-PublicJane Addams Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 243 students
C-PublicElizabeth Graham Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 241 students
C-PublicWilcox Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 241 students
C+PublicBlack Hawk Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 234 students
C-PublicMatheny-Withrow Elem SchElementary · Grades K–5 · 216 students
C-PublicMcClernand Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 213 students
DPublicChrist the King Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 535 students
PrivateChrist the KingElementary · Grades PK–8 · 531 students
PrivateBlessed SacramentElementary · Grades PK–8 · 419 students
PrivateSpringfield Christian SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 396 students
PrivateLittle Flower Catholic SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 305 students
PrivateTrintyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 214 students
PrivateOur Savior's Lutheran SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 198 students
PrivateSt. Agnes Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 194 students
PrivateSt. Aloysius Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 120 students
PrivateSt. Patrick Catholic SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 63 students
PrivateBenjamin Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 709 students
BPublicWashington Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 516 students
DPublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.