Schools · Lyons
Lyons, IL schools
Lyons’s public schools score well above Illinois’s averages: 53% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 95% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend Lyons Twp High Sch or Argo Community High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
A−
Lyons’s School Grade: A-
The public schools Lyons’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 83% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
ATest scoresA-Graduation
Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 83%
Lower resultsHigher results
Illinois towns with similar household incomes (1,245)Better than 92%
Towns in Cook County (28)Better than 64%
High confidence. Built on 1,517 tested students and a graduating class of 990; 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 Lyons kids go to school
Grades 9–12
ALyons Twp High Sch or B-Argo Community High School
Depends on your address Lyons Township High School District 204Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well above the state in reading
Reading (grades 9–12, Lyons Township High School District 204)53%
State average 30.7%
Reading (Argo Community High School District 217)20%
State average 30.7%
Math (grades 9–12, Lyons Township High School District 204)49%
State average 25.8%
Math (Argo Community High School District 217)20%
State average 25.8%
Graduation · class of 2018
95% graduate on time
Graduation rate
95%
IL: 87.3%
Graduating class
990
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Districts
Two districts serve Lyons
Lyons Township High School District 204Grades 9–12 · 1 school · 3,706 students
$27,424 per studentIL $21,567AArgo Community High School District 217Grades 9–12 · 1 school · 1,817 students
$26,897 per studentIL $21,567B-Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 54 schools in Lyons
Showing 1–30 of 54 schools
Frank A Brodnicki Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 618 students
B-PublicHighlands Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–4 · 565 students
D-PublicOgden Ave Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 563 students
APublicOtis P Graves Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 562 students
D-PublicCossitt Ave Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 472 students
A+PublicPleasantdale Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–4 · 466 students
A+PublicBridgeview Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 436 students
BPublicCongress Park Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 419 students
B+PublicGeorge T Wilkins Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 416 students
C+PublicWillow Springs Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 414 students
C+PublicJohn Laidlaw Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 380 students
PublicLincoln Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 366 students
C-PublicRobina Lyle Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 329 students
C+PublicSpring Ave Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 317 students
A+PublicForest Hills Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 289 students
D-PublicField Park Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 278 students
PublicIdeal Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 258 students
B-PublicJ W Robinson Jr Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 251 students
C-PublicCostello SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 228 students
C-PublicSeventh Ave Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 194 students
APublicWalsh Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 182 students
D-PublicHodgkins Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 165 students
B+PublicW W Walker Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 130 students
PublicDr Donald Wharton Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 114 students
D-PublicWashington Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 659 students
C-PublicGeo T Wilkins Jr High SchoolMiddle · Grades 7–8 · 508 students
B+PublicMcClure Jr High SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 469 students
PublicHeritage Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 447 students
D-PublicHighlands Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 5–8 · 429 students
D-PublicPleasantdale Middle SchMiddle · Grades 5–8 · 352 students
APublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.