Schools · Wood River

Wood River, IL schools

Wood River’s public schools score close to Illinois’s averages: 31% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 97% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend Bethalto East Primary School through grade 1, then Central Intermediate School, Wilbur Trimpe Middle School or Roxana Junior High School and Civic Memorial High School or East Alton-Wood River High Sch or Roxana Sr High School.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

B-School Grade #285Best schools in IL (of 384)

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Wood River’s School Grade: B-

The public schools Wood River’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 54% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.

C+Test scoresA-Graduation

Illinois school districts we grade (853)Better than 54%

Lower resultsHigher results

Illinois towns with similar household incomes (1,332)Better than 68%

Towns in Madison County (23)Better than 30%

High confidence. Built on 2,123 tested students and a graduating class of 197; 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.

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Where Wood River kids go to school

Grades PK–1

Bethalto East Primary School 387 students · Bethalto Bethalto Consolidated Unit School District 8

Grades 3–5

C+Central Intermediate School 365 students · Roxana Roxana Community Unit School District 1

Grades 6–8

BWilbur Trimpe Middle School or B-Roxana Junior High School Depends on your address Bethalto Consolidated Unit School District 8

Grades 9–12

C+Civic Memorial High School or C-East Alton-Wood River High Sch or CRoxana Sr High School Depends on your address Bethalto Consolidated Unit School District 8

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21