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Academic Learning & Achievement

Is my child learning?

Illinois checks on every student's learning each year — in reading and math in grades 3-8, and with the SAT in high school. Here is how students at this school are doing, year by year, exactly as CPS and the state publish it.

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How students are doing

Proficiency — reading and math, year by year.

The share of students meeting or exceeding grade-level standards on the state test — the state's own bar for doing grade-level work, not ours. The further back the line goes, the more of the story you can see.

All Chicago elementary schools Test changed Scoring bar changed

The state changed tests after SY2017-18 — from PARCC to the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR). Compare scores across that gap with care.

Starting in SY2024-25, Illinois lowered the bar a student must clear to count as "meets or exceeds." Part of any rise you see that year reflects the easier bar, so read across that line with care.

No statewide test was given in SY2019-20 because of COVID-19.

Illinois tests every 3rd-8th grader each spring in reading (ELA) and math. The chart shows the share of students who met or exceeded grade-level standards — the state's own bar for doing grade-level work.

Before SY2018-19 the test was called PARCC; since then it is the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR). Because the test itself changed, treat comparisons across that line as approximate.

How students are doing

Growth — how much students improved.

Proficiency shows where students are; growth shows how far they travelled this year. The median student growth percentile (SGP) compares each student's progress to state peers who started in the same place — 50 is typical growth, above 50 is faster.

Staying on track

On track for what comes next.

CPS flags early — by attendance, grades and course credits — whether each student is on track for the next step. These are the school's published on-track rates for all students combined.

Many schools have only a small group of English Learners, so this rate can swing widely from one year to the next. Read it as a rough signal, not a precise score.

Source

Proficiency results (IAR, formerly PARCC) and PSAT/SAT results from CPS and ISBE public assessment reports. Student growth percentile from ISBE Illinois Student Growth reports. On-track, graduation and English Learner rates from the school's CPS School Profile.

Coverage

Data through SY2024-25. We show every year the public source reports back to SY2017-18.

How to read this page

Every number on this page appears exactly as CPS or the state published it — we never combine or recalculate scores. The optional "schools like this one" line is the simple average of that same published number across Chicago schools serving the same grades.

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