Schools · Wheeling
Wheeling, IL schools
Wheeling’s public schools score well above Illinois’s averages: 48% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 93% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend one of 16 elementary schools through grade 5, then one of 5 middle schools and one of 4 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
A−
Wheeling’s School Grade: A-
The public schools Wheeling’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 80% 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 80%
Lower resultsHigher results
Illinois towns with similar household incomes (944)Better than 85%
Towns in Cook County (28)Better than 50%
High confidence. Built on 8,680 tested students and a graduating class of 2,962; 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 Wheeling kids go to school
Grades PK–5
16 elementary schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Arlington Heights School District 25Grades 6–8
5 middle schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Arlington Heights School District 25Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well above the state in reading
Reading (grades 9–12, Township High School District 214)45%
State average 30.7%
Reading (Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21)20%
State average 30.7%
Reading (grades PK–8, Arlington Heights School District 25)48%
State average 30.7%
Math (grades 9–12, Township High School District 214)42%
State average 25.8%
Math (Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21)25%
State average 25.8%
Math (grades PK–8, Arlington Heights School District 25)45%
State average 25.8%
Graduation · class of 2018
93% graduate on time
Graduation rate
93%
IL: 87.3%
Graduating class
2,962
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #195 of 635 IL towns →
Districts
Three districts serve Wheeling
Township High School District 214Grades 9–12 · 10 schools · 11,911 students
$27,472 per studentIL $21,567A-Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21Grades PK–8 · 13 schools · 6,298 students
$23,618 per studentIL $21,567C+Arlington Heights School District 25Grades PK–8 · 9 schools · 5,423 students
$19,822 per studentIL $21,567AEach district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 56 schools in Wheeling
Showing 1–30 of 56 schools
Olive-Mary Stitt SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 671 students
APublicWestgate Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 633 students
APublicEugene Field Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 613 students
CPublicIvy Hill Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 593 students
APublicJoyce Kilmer Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 590 students
CPublicBooth Tarkington Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 540 students
BPublicRobert Frost Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 532 students
C+PublicMark Twain Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 524 students
D-PublicDryden Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 521 students
A-PublicHenry W Longfellow Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 510 students
A-PublicWindsor Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 490 students
APublicFairview Elem SchoolElementary · Grades 2–5 · 463 students
A-PublicIndian Grove Elem SchoolElementary · Grades 1–5 · 435 students
APublicPatton Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 399 students
APublicWalt Whitman Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 378 students
C-PublicEuclid Elem SchoolElementary · Grades 1–5 · 344 students
B+PublicBetsy Ross Elem SchoolElementary · Grades 2–3 · 338 students
B+PublicAnne Sullivan Elem SchoolElementary · Grades 4–5 · 329 students
A-PublicDwight D Eisenhower Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–1 · 326 students
PublicJ W Riley Elem SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 319 students
A-PublicEdgar A Poe Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 317 students
BPublicGreenbrier Elem SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 280 students
A+PublicPrairie Trails SchoolElementary · Grades PK–K · 175 students
PublicThomas Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 1,024 students
APublicSouth Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 812 students
APublicCooper Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 732 students
B+PublicJack London Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 628 students
B-PublicOliver W Holmes Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 615 students
CPublicRiver Trails Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 508 students
A-PublicMacArthur Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 483 students
A-PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.