Griggsville-Perry Primary School
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Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Griggsville-Perry Primary School
Griggsville-Perry Primary School is one of the very small elementary campuss in Griggsville, Illinois, operated by Griggsville-Perry CUSD 4, with 148 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 61% smaller than typical.
Across the 3 schools in Griggsville-Perry CUSD 4 (329 students total), Griggsville-Perry Primary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, Griggsville-Perry Primary School reports that nearly all students (99%) are White. That composition is broadly in line with Pike County as a whole.
On the resource side, Griggsville-Perry Primary School lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Pike County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Griggsville-Perry Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 40.5%, a residual of -13.0 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Pike County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $59,777 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pike County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,394 students), Griggsville-Perry Primary School is one campus in the mix.
Griggsville-Perry High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Griggsville-Perry Primary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 35.8%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Griggsville-Perry Primary School has shrank 7%, going from 160 students in 2018 to 148 in 2025.
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