Rapids, IL schools
Rapids’s public schools score well above Illinois’s averages: 38% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 95% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend Riverdale Elem School through grade 5, then Riverdale Middle School and United Twp High School or Riverdale Sr High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Rapids’s School Grade: B+
The public schools Rapids’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 65% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
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.
Where Rapids kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well below 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 Rapids
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Rapids
There’s no college in Rapids, but 9 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Black Hawk College in Moline, 9 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Rapids. 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 Rapids yet.