Schools · Pontoon Beach

Pontoon Beach, IL schools

Pontoon Beach’s public schools score well below Illinois’s averages: 11% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 72% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend Prather Elementary School through grade K, then Frohardt Elem School or Mitchell Elementary School, Coolidge Junior High Sch and Granite City High School.

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

D-School Grade #623Highest graduation rate in IL (of 635)

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Pontoon Beach’s School Grade: D-

The public schools Pontoon Beach’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 97% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

DTest scoresD-Graduation

Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 3%

Lower resultsHigher results

Illinois towns with similar household incomes (1,349)Better than 1%

Good confidence. Built on 424 tested students and a graduating class of 476; 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.

School path

Where Pontoon Beach kids go to school

Grades PK–K

Prather Elementary School 612 students · Granite City Granite City Community Unit School District 9

Grades 3–4

C-Frohardt Elem School or C+Mitchell Elementary School Depends on your address Granite City Community Unit School District 9

Grades 7–8

BCoolidge Junior High Sch 854 students · Granite City Granite City Community Unit School District 9

Grades 9–12

CGranite City High School 1,755 students · Granite City Granite City Community Unit School District 9

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, Granite City Community Unit School District 9)11%

State average 30.7%

Math (grades PK–12, Granite City Community Unit School District 9)9%

State average 25.8%

Graduation · class of 2018

72% graduate on time

Graduation rate

72%

IL: 87.3%

Graduating class

476

students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #623 of 635 IL towns →

Districts

The district serving Pontoon Beach

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Granite City Community Unit School District 9Grades PK–12 · 9 schools · 5,747 students

$13,631 per studentIL $21,567D-

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

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