Schools · Sugar Creek

Sugar Creek, IL schools

Sugar Creek’s public schools score close to Illinois’s averages: 32% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 92% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend Aviston Elem School or Trenton Elem School through grade 8, then Wesclin Middle School or Aviston Elem School and Wesclin Sr High School.

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

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Sugar Creek’s School Grade: A-

The public schools Sugar Creek’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 78% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.

A-Test scoresB-Graduation
Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 78%
Lower resultsHigher results
Illinois towns with similar household incomes (1,019)Better than 82%
Towns in Clinton County (15)Better than 87%
High confidence. Built on 1,062 tested students and a graduating class of 162; 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 Sugar Creek kids go to school

Grades PK–8
A+Aviston Elem School or B+Trenton Elem School Depends on your address Aviston School District 21

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Close to the state in reading

Reading (Central Community High School District 71)32%
State average 30.7%
Reading (grades 8–12, Wesclin Community Unit School District 3)32%
State average 30.7%
Reading (grades PK–8, Aviston School District 21)69%
State average 30.7%
Math (Central Community High School District 71)37%
State average 25.8%
Math (grades 8–12, Wesclin Community Unit School District 3)24%
State average 25.8%
Math (grades PK–8, Aviston School District 21)68%
State average 25.8%
Graduation · class of 2018

92% graduate on time

Graduation rate
92%
IL: 87.3%
Graduating class
162
students

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

Districts

Three districts serve Sugar Creek

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

Within reach

Colleges near Sugar Creek

There’s no college in Sugar Creek, but 6 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is McKendree University in Lebanon, 8.7 miles away.

Straight-line distance from the center of Sugar Creek. 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.

Every school

All 4 schools in Sugar Creek

Showing 1–4 of 4 schools

School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.

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