Garfield’s public schools beat 54% of Illinois districts
The public schools Garfield’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.
How Garfield 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 Garfield (some depend on your address).
Parts of Garfield are served by Dwight Common School District 232, Herscher Community Unit School District 2 and South Wilmington Consolidated School District 74.
Three districts serve Garfield
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Well below the state in reading
Garfield vs. its neighbors
Garfield’s schools rank 3rd of 5 among the towns that share its borders. School Grade, by percentile among Illinois districts.
Every school in Garfield
2 schools. Grades are ours, from state tests and graduation. Stars are from neighbors.
Parents talk
What Garfield families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Garfield
There’s no college in Garfield, but 4 are within 30 miles. The closest is Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, 23.6 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Garfield. 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.