South Fork, IL schools
South Fork’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 North Elem School or Pawnee Grade School or Edinburg Elem School through grade 6, then Pawnee Grade School or Memorial Elem School or Edinburg Elem School, Taylorville Jr High School or Pawnee Jr/Sr High Sch or Edinburg Jr High School and Taylorville Sr High School or Pawnee Jr/Sr High Sch or Edinburg High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
South Fork’s School Grade: B-
The public schools South Fork’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 54% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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 South Fork kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Below the state in reading
92% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Three districts serve South Fork
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near South Fork
There’s no college in South Fork, but 4 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, 13 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of South Fork. 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.
All 2 schools in South Fork
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools South Fork kids attend in other towns
Public schools in South Fork’s districts that are located in Taylorville, Pawnee and Edinburg. Which one depends on your address.