Walnut Grove, IL schools
Walnut Grove’s public schools score well below Illinois’s averages: 23% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 87% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend West Prairie North Elementary Sch through grade 6, then Bushnell-Prairie City Jr High Sch or West Prairie Junior High School and Bushnell-Prairie City High Sch or West Prairie Senior High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Walnut Grove’s School Grade: C+
The public schools Walnut Grove’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 64% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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 Walnut Grove kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well below the state in reading
87% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Two districts serve Walnut Grove
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Walnut Grove
There’s no college in Walnut Grove, but 5 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Western Illinois University in Macomb, 9 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Walnut Grove. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.
All 1 school in Walnut Grove
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Walnut Grove kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Walnut Grove’s districts that are located in Bushnell and Colchester. Which one depends on your address.