Schools · Marion

Marion, IL schools

Marion’s public schools score close to Illinois’s averages: 31% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 79% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend one of 4 elementary schools through grade 5, then Marion Jr High School and Marion High School.

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

CSchool Grade #196Best schools in IL (of 384)#560Highest graduation rate in IL (of 635)

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Marion’s School Grade: C

The public schools Marion’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 71% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

BTest scoresDGraduation

Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 29%

Lower resultsHigher results

Illinois towns with similar household incomes (1,147)Better than 30%

High confidence. Built on 1,600 tested students and a graduating class of 277; 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.