Schools · Ottawa
Ottawa, IL schools
Ottawa’s public schools score close to Illinois’s averages: 30% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 85% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
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B−
Ottawa’s School Grade: B-
The public schools Ottawa’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 50% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
B-Test scoresCGraduation
Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 50%
Lower resultsHigher results
Illinois towns with similar household incomes (1,492)Better than 53%
High confidence. Built on 1,511 tested students and a graduating class of 377; 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.
Test scores · 2020–21
Below the state in reading
Reading (grades 9–12, Ottawa Township High School District 140)27%
State average 30.7%
Reading (Ottawa Elementary School District 141)30%
State average 30.7%
Reading (Rutland Community Consolidated School District 230)44.5%
State average 30.7%
Reading (grades PK–8, Wallace Community Consolidated School District 195)37%
State average 30.7%
Math (grades 9–12, Ottawa Township High School District 140)17%
State average 25.8%
Math (Ottawa Elementary School District 141)17%
State average 25.8%
Math (Rutland Community Consolidated School District 230)34.5%
State average 25.8%
Math (grades PK–8, Wallace Community Consolidated School District 195)27%
State average 25.8%
Graduation · class of 2018
85% graduate on time
Graduation rate
85%
IL: 87.3%
Graduating class
377
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #485 of 635 IL towns →
Districts
Four districts serve Ottawa
Ottawa Township High School District 140Grades 9–12 · 2 schools · 1,223 students
$18,784 per studentIL $21,567C+Ottawa Elementary School District 141Grades PK–8 · 5 schools · 1,747 students
$18,096 per studentIL $21,567B-Rutland Community Consolidated School District 230Grades PK–8 · 1 school · 70 students
$30,971 per studentIL $21,567A-Wallace Community Consolidated School District 195Grades PK–8 · 2 schools · 420 students
$17,088 per studentIL $21,567B+Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
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