Philadelphia, IL schools
Philadelphia’s public schools score well below Illinois’s averages: 17% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 95% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend Virginia Elem School or A-C Central Elementary School through grade 5, then Virginia Jr/ Sr High School or A-C Central Middle School and Virginia Jr/ Sr High School or A-C Central High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Philadelphia’s School Grade: C+
The public schools Philadelphia’s kids attend trail 62% of Illinois’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
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.
Where Philadelphia kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Close to the state in reading
95% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Two districts serve Philadelphia
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Philadelphia
There’s no college in Philadelphia, but 4 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Illinois College in Jacksonville, 14.8 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Philadelphia. 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.
We don’t have any schools located in Philadelphia yet.