Utica, IL schools
Utica’s public schools score below Illinois’s averages: 26% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 85% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend Waltham Elementary School through grade 8, then Ottawa Township High School or La Salle-Peru Twp High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Utica’s School Grade: B-
The public schools Utica’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 52% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
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 Utica kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well above the state in reading
85% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Three districts serve Utica
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Utica
There’s no college in Utica, but 1 college is within 30 miles. The closest is Illinois Valley Community College in Oglesby, 6.5 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Utica. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.
All 1 school in Utica
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Utica kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Utica’s districts that are located in Ottawa and La Salle. Which one depends on your address.