Schools · Palos Heights
Palos Heights, IL schools
Palos Heights’s public schools score well above Illinois’s averages: 39% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 93% 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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A−
Palos Heights’s School Grade: A-
The public schools Palos Heights’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 75% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
B+Test scoresB+Graduation
Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 75%
Lower resultsHigher results
Illinois towns with similar household incomes (906)Better than 72%
High confidence. Built on 4,929 tested students and a graduating class of 1,960; 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
Well below the state in reading
Reading (Community High School District 218)20%
State average 30.7%
Reading (grades 9–12, Consolidated High School District 230)39%
State average 30.7%
Reading (grades PK–8, Palos Community Consolidated School District 118)57%
State average 30.7%
Reading (Palos Heights School District 128)49%
State average 30.7%
Math (Community High School District 218)14%
State average 25.8%
Math (grades 9–12, Consolidated High School District 230)35%
State average 25.8%
Math (grades PK–8, Palos Community Consolidated School District 118)46%
State average 25.8%
Math (Palos Heights School District 128)36%
State average 25.8%
Graduation · class of 2018
93% graduate on time
Graduation rate
93%
IL: 87.3%
Graduating class
1,960
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Districts
Four districts serve Palos Heights
Community High School District 218Grades 9–12 · 4 schools · 5,436 students
$25,321 per studentIL $21,567CConsolidated High School District 230Grades 9–12 · 3 schools · 7,613 students
$25,716 per studentIL $21,567A-Palos Community Consolidated School District 118Grades PK–8 · 3 schools · 2,122 students
$18,629 per studentIL $21,567A+Palos Heights School District 128Grades PK–8 · 4 schools · 830 students
$17,546 per studentIL $21,567AEach district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
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