Schools in Champaign · Champaign Community Unit School District 4, Mahomet-Seymour Community Unit School District 3
Champaign’s public schools beat 54% of Illinois districts
The public schools Champaign’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 54% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 54%
Lower resultsHigher results
Illinois towns with similar household incomes (1,083)Better than 40%
Towns in Champaign County (30)Better than 33%
High confidence. Built on 3,768 tested students and a graduating class of 652; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change it.
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 Champaign (some depend on your address).
4 schools teach Pre-K in Champaign’s district. Which one depends on your address: Middletown Prairie Elementary, International Prep Academy, Garden Hills Elem School and Champaign Early Chldhd Cntr.
6 schools teach 6th grade in Champaign’s district. Which one depends on your address: Mahomet-Seymour Jr High School, Jefferson Middle School, International Prep Academy and Franklin Middle School and more.
6 schools teach 7th grade in Champaign’s district. Which one depends on your address: Mahomet-Seymour Jr High School, Jefferson Middle School, International Prep Academy and Franklin Middle School and more.
6 schools teach 8th grade in Champaign’s district. Which one depends on your address: Mahomet-Seymour Jr High School, Jefferson Middle School, International Prep Academy and Franklin Middle School and more.
Straight-line distance from the center of Champaign. 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.