The ratings are as follows: ISBE designations for 147 district schools

Wednesday was report card day for public schools across the state that received official designation from the Illinois Board of Education based on performance in multiple categories for the 2023-24 school year. ¶ Here is a brief overview of how schools are classified in each area, and definitions for all five groups – Exemplary, Commendable, Focused, Comprehensive and Intensive. ¶ Much more will appear in the upcoming issue of Meeting Minutes & More.

EXEMPLARY

Defined by ISBE as schools performing in the top 10 percent statewide, with no pockets of low-performing students.

Cissna Park Junior High School
Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High
Muhammad-Seymour High School
Prairieview-Ogden Middle School
St. Junior High School Józefa
Villa Grove Primary School

GLORIOUS

Defined by ISBE as schools that do not have pockets of low-performing students, have a graduation rate greater than 67 percent, and whose performance is not in the top 10 percent of schools statewide.

Arcola High School, Arcola Elementary School
Armstrong Township High School, Armstrong-Ellis Elementary School
ALAH High, Arthur Elementary School, Atwood-Hammond Elementary School, Lovington Elementary School
Bement High School, Bement Junior High School, Bement Elementary School
Bismarck-Henning Rossville-Alvin High School, BH Elementary School, BH Middle School
Blue Ridge Elementary School, Blue Ridge Middle School, Schneider Elementary School
Cerro Gordo Jr./Sr. Tall, Cerro Gordo Elementary School
Champaign Barkstall Elementary School, Centennial High, Edison Middle School, International Prep Academy, Jefferson Middle School, South Side Elementary, Westview Elementary
Chrisman High School, Chrisman Elementary School, Chrisman-Scottland Middle School
Cissna Park High School, Cissna Park Elementary School
Clinton High, Clinton Junior High, Clinton Elementary, Lincoln Elementary
Danville Elementary School, Edison Elementary School, Liberty Elementary School, North Ridge High School, Northeast Elementary School, Southwest Elementary School
DeLand-Weldon High School, DW Elementary School, DW High School
Fisher Middle/High School, Fisher Elementary School
Georgetown-Ridge Farm High School, Mary Miller Middle School, Pine Crest Elementary School
GCMS Middle School, GCMS Elementary School
Gifford Primary School
High Heritage
Hoopeston Area High, Hoopeston Area Middle School, Hoopeston Area Middle School John Greer, Maple Elementary School
Iroquois West High, IW Middle School, IW Elementary
Kansas Elementary School, Kansas Elementary School
LeRoy High, LeRoy Junior High, LeRoy Elementary
Muhammad-Seymour Middle School, Lincoln Trail Elementary School, Prairie Elementary School
Milford High, an elementary school in Milford
Monticello High School, Monticello High School, Washington Elementary School, White Heath Elementary School
Oakland Elementary School, Lake Crest Elementary School
Tall Oakwood
Prairieview-Ogden North Elementary School, South Elementary School
Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School, PBL Middle School, Clara Peterson Elementary School
Potomac Elementary School
Rantoul Township High School, JW Eater Middle School
St. Primary School Joseph, St. Joseph’s Secondary School Józefa-Ogden
Salt Fork Elementary School, North Elementary School, South Elementary School
Shiloh High School, Shiloh Elementary School
Sullivan High School, Sullivan Middle School
Thomasboro Elementary School
Tuscola High School, East Prairie High School, North Ward Elementary School
Unity High, Unity Junior High, East Elementary, West Elementary
Wysokie Urbana
Villa Grove High School, Villa Grove Middle School
Watseka High School, Watseka Middle School, Raymond Elementary School
Westville High, Westville Junior High, Judith Giacoma Elementary

SET

Defined by ISBE as schools with one or more student groups at or below the “all students” group level in the lowest 5 percent of schools.

Champaign Bottenfield Elementary School, Carrie Busey Elementary School, Central High Elementary School, Franklin STEAM Academy, Kenwood Elementary School
Clinton Douglas Elementary School
Danville Meade Park Elementary School
Junior High/Elementary Heritage
Oakwood Elementary School
Rantoul Broadmeadow Elementary School, Eastlawn Elementary School, Northview Elementary School, Pleasant Acres Elementary School
Rossville-Alvin Elementary School
Salt Fork Middle School
Sullivan Elementary School
Urbana Leal Elementary School

EXHAUSTIVE

Defined by ISBE as schools in the bottom 5 percent of performing in Illinois; high schools with a graduation rate of 67 percent or less; schools that have completed a full cycle of targeted improvement for supporting schools where the performance of one or more of the original target groups remains at or below the level of the “all students” group in the lowest 5 percent of schools at the end of the school year of the four-year improvement cycle.

Champaign Booker T. Washington STEM Academy, Dr. Howard Elementary School, Garden Hills Elementary School, Robeson Elementary School, Stratton Academy for the Arts
Danville Mark Denman Elementary School, South View Elementary School
Western Iroquois Elementary School
Ludlow Primary School
Urbana Dr. Elementary School King, Urbana High School, Thomas Paine Elementary School

INTENSE

Defined by ISBE as schools that have completed a full cycle of Comprehensive School Improvement Supports but whose performance remains in the lowest-performing 5 percent of statewide schools or high schools with a four-grade completion rate of less than 67 percent or less . annual improvement cycle.

Urbana Dr. Williams Elementary School

Note: Yankee Ridge Urbana Elementary School has not received designation from ISBE. It is considered a new school unit, the district said, “due to redistricting and the reorganization of our Spanish and French bilingual programs to create the new Yankee Ridge Multilingual School.”