Summary:
The Wood River-Hartford Education Service District 15 in Illinois has only one middle school, Lewis-Clark Junior High School. This school has consistently ranked in the bottom half of Illinois middle schools, with a performance rating of 2 out of 5 stars in the 2023-2024 school year, down from 1 out of 5 stars in the previous two years.
Lewis-Clark Junior High School lags behind the state and district averages in academic proficiency, with only 24.4% of students proficient or better in English Language Arts and 41.5% proficient in science in the 2023-2024 school year. The school also has a high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, at 76.41% in the 2022-2023 school year, indicating significant socioeconomic challenges faced by the student population.
Despite the school's relatively high per-student spending of $15,450 in the 2022-2023 school year, the academic outcomes have not improved. This suggests that there are opportunities for the school to better allocate resources and implement targeted interventions to address the core academic areas where students are struggling, such as English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science.
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