Schools · Mount Pulaski

Mount Pulaski, IL schools

Mount Pulaski’s public schools score well below Illinois’s averages: 21% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 95% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend Mount Pulaski Elem School through grade 8, then Mount Pulaski High School.

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

C+School Grade

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Mount Pulaski’s School Grade: C+

The public schools Mount Pulaski’s kids attend trail 63% of Illinois’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

C+Test scores

Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 37%

Lower resultsHigher results

Illinois towns with similar household incomes (1,490)Better than 33%

Towns in Logan County (17)Better than 29%

Good confidence. Built on 272 tested students; 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. 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.
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 Mount Pulaski kids go to school

Grades PK–8

C+Mount Pulaski Elem School 369 students · Mount Pulaski Mount Pulaski Community Unit District 23

Grades 9–12

B+Mount Pulaski High School 178 students · Mount Pulaski Mount Pulaski Community Unit District 23

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, Mount Pulaski Community Unit District 23)21%

State average 30.7%

Math (grades PK–12, Mount Pulaski Community Unit District 23)21%

State average 25.8%

Graduation · class of 2018

95% graduate on time

Graduation rate

95%

IL: 87.3%

Graduating class

students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Mount Pulaski

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Mount Pulaski Community Unit District 23Grades PK–12 · 2 schools · 547 students

$16,475 per studentIL $21,567C+

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Mount Pulaski

There’s no college in Mount Pulaski, but 5 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Millikin University in Decatur, 20.2 miles away.

Millikin UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Decatur20.2 mi1,595 students

St. John's College-Department of NursingUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Springfield21.5 mi82 students

Richland Community CollegeCommunity college · Public · Decatur23.1 mi1,817 students University of Illinois SpringfieldUniversity or college · Public · Springfield23.9 mi2,500 students Lincoln Land Community CollegeCommunity college · Public · Springfield24.1 mi4,049 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Mount Pulaski. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

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