Summary:
The Niles Education Service District 71 in Illinois is home to one elementary school, Clarence E Culver School, which serves grades PK-8 with an enrollment of 655 students. This school stands out as a relatively strong-performing institution within its district and the state of Illinois, with consistently high proficiency rates in English Language Arts and Science compared to state averages.
Clarence E Culver School's statewide SchoolDigger ranking has fluctuated between 613 and 851 out of over 2,000 Illinois elementary schools in recent years, placing it in the top half of schools statewide. The school's overall proficiency rates in ELA (52.8%) and Science (71.9%) are significantly higher than the state averages (41.2% and 53.2% respectively). In several individual grade levels, the school's proficiency rates in ELA and Math exceed the state averages, sometimes by wide margins, such as 7th grade ELA proficiency at 78% compared to 42.5% statewide.
While the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 13.9% is slightly higher than the state average, it serves a relatively high percentage of economically disadvantaged students, with 46.26% of its population qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The school's higher spending per student ($17,958 in 2022-2023) and lower student-teacher ratio (11.9 to 1) may be contributing factors to its academic success, though further analysis would be needed to establish a direct correlation. Overall, Clarence E Culver School appears to be a strong-performing elementary school within its district and the state, particularly in the areas of ELA and Science proficiency.
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