Sparta’s public schools score below 53% of Illinois districts
The public schools Sparta’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 53% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
How Sparta compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Illinois’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2018.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Illinois only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so 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 will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Sparta.
Parts of Sparta are served by Galesburg Community Unit School District 205.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Above the state in reading
Sparta vs. its neighbors
Sparta’s schools rank 2nd of 5 among the towns that share its borders. School Grade, by percentile among Illinois districts.
Every school in Sparta
0 schools. Grades are ours, from state tests and graduation. Stars are from neighbors.
Parents talk
What Sparta families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Sparta
There’s no college in Sparta, but 3 are within 30 miles. The closest is Knox College in Galesburg, 7.7 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Sparta. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Illinois. Stars are from neighbors.