Schools · Thornton
Thornton, IL schools
Thornton’s public schools score well below Illinois’s averages: 8% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 78% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend one of 4 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C−
Thornton’s School Grade: C-
The public schools Thornton’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 81% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
DTest scoresDGraduation
Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 19%
Lower resultsHigher results
Illinois towns with similar household incomes (1,208)Better than 18%
Towns in Cook County (28)Better than 21%
High confidence. Built on 1,671 tested students and a graduating class of 1,105; 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 Thornton kids go to school
Grades 9–12
4 high schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Thornton Township High School District 205Based 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 9–12, Thornton Township High School District 205)8%
State average 30.7%
Reading (Thornton Fractional Township High School District 215)13%
State average 30.7%
Math (grades 9–12, Thornton Township High School District 205)7%
State average 25.8%
Math (Thornton Fractional Township High School District 215)9%
State average 25.8%
Graduation · class of 2018
78% graduate on time
Graduation rate
78%
IL: 87.3%
Graduating class
1,105
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #573 of 635 IL towns →
Districts
Two districts serve Thornton
Thornton Township High School District 205Grades 9–12 · 5 schools · 4,509 students
$34,660 per studentIL $21,567DThornton Fractional Township High School District 215Grades 9–12 · 4 schools · 3,228 students
$25,124 per studentIL $21,567B-Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 80 schools in Thornton
Showing 1–30 of 80 schools
Lincoln Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 717 students
CPublicCoolidge Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 670 students
C+PublicHoover Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 571 students
D-PublicOak Glen Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 526 students
CPublicBarack H Obama Learning AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 466 students
BPublicCaroline Sibley Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 434 students
DPublicReavis Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 362 students
C-PublicWilson Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–2 · 349 students
PublicLincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 342 students
BPublicGreenwood Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–3 · 321 students
C-PublicMartin L King Elem SchoolElementary · Grades 1–4 · 320 students
D-PublicWentworth Intermediate SchoolElementary · Grades 3–5 · 315 students
D-PublicTaft SchoolElementary · Grades PK–1 · 308 students
PublicBryant Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 294 students
DPublicNew Beginnings Learning AcademyElementary · Grades K–5 · 288 students
DPublicWashington Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 282 students
D-PublicMadison SchoolElementary · Grades 4–5 · 277 students
DPublicEisenhower SchoolElementary · Grades 2–3 · 274 students
C-PublicMaya Angelou Elem SchElementary · Grades PK–5 · 271 students
DPublicHolmes Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 270 students
D-PublicBerger-Vandenberg Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 266 students
C-PublicCarol Moseley Braun SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 264 students
DPublicFranklin Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 259 students
D-PublicWolcott SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 249 students
PublicRoosevelt Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 248 students
D-PublicDiekman Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 227 students
D-PublicPark Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 197 students
D-PublicWhittier Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 197 students
DPublicMcKinley Elem SchoolElementary · Grades 4–5 · 176 students
C-PublicLincoln Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–K · 174 students
PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.