Palmer’s public schools score below 69% of Illinois districts
The public schools Palmer’s kids attend trail 69% of Illinois’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
How Palmer compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Illinois’s state tests against the state average. 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.
- 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 Palmer.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Well below the state in reading
Every school in Palmer
0 schools. Grades are based on state tests and graduation. Any other ratings are made by neighbors.
Parents talk
What Palmer families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Palmer
There’s no college in Palmer, but 4 are within 30 miles. The closest is Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, 21.1 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Palmer. 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, graded within Illinois. Stars are from neighbors.