Schools · Wadsworth
Wadsworth, IL schools
Wadsworth’s public schools score well below Illinois’s averages: 14% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 94% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
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C
Wadsworth’s School Grade: C
The public schools Wadsworth’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 67% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
CTest scoresB+Graduation
Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 33%
Lower resultsHigher results
Illinois towns with similar household incomes (385)Better than 9%
High confidence. Built on 3,408 tested students and a graduating class of 1,069; 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.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well above the state in reading
Reading (grades 9–12, Warren Township High School District 121)43%
State average 30.7%
Reading (grades 8, Beach Park Community Consolidated School District 3)12%
State average 30.7%
Reading (Zion-Benton Township High School District 126)16%
State average 30.7%
Reading (grades PK–8, Gurnee School District 56)14%
State average 30.7%
Math (grades 9–12, Warren Township High School District 121)34%
State average 25.8%
Math (grades 8, Beach Park Community Consolidated School District 3)9%
State average 25.8%
Math (Zion-Benton Township High School District 126)9%
State average 25.8%
Math (grades PK–8, Gurnee School District 56)11%
State average 25.8%
Graduation · class of 2018
94% graduate on time
Graduation rate
94%
IL: 87.3%
Graduating class
1,069
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Districts
Four districts serve Wadsworth
Warren Township High School District 121Grades 9–12 · 1 school · 3,537 students
$20,075 per studentIL $21,567A-Beach Park Community Consolidated School District 3Grades PK–8 · 5 schools · 1,996 students
$20,690 per studentIL $21,567DZion-Benton Township High School District 126Grades 9–12 · 2 schools · 2,533 students
$22,286 per studentIL $21,567C-Gurnee School District 56Grades PK–8 · 4 schools · 1,836 students
$20,917 per studentIL $21,567C-Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
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