Schools · Royal Lakes

Royal Lakes, IL schools

Royal Lakes’s public schools score close to Illinois’s averages: 31% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 92% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend Wolf Ridge Education Center or Brighton North Primary School through grade 8, then Wolf Ridge Education Center or Shipman Elem School, Wolf Ridge Education Center or Southwestern Middle School and Southwestern High School or Bunker Hill High School.

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

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Royal Lakes’s School Grade: B-

The public schools Royal Lakes’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 51% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation.

B-Test scoresB-Graduation
Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 51%
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High confidence. Built on 906 tested students and a graduating class of 116; 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 Royal Lakes kids go to school

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–8, Bunker Hill Community Unit School District 8)19%
State average 30.7%
Reading (grades 9–12, Southwestern Community Unit School District 9)31%
State average 30.7%
Math (grades PK–8, Bunker Hill Community Unit School District 8)12%
State average 25.8%
Math (grades 9–12, Southwestern Community Unit School District 9)22%
State average 25.8%
Graduation · class of 2018

92% graduate on time

Graduation rate
92%
IL: 87.3%
Graduating class
116
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

Two districts serve Royal Lakes

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

Within reach

Colleges near Royal Lakes

There’s no college in Royal Lakes, but 4 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Blackburn College in Carlinville, 13 miles away.

Straight-line distance from the center of Royal Lakes. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.

We don’t have any schools located in Royal Lakes yet.

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