English Language Arts
91.6%
State avg 51.0%
District avg 39.7%
County avg 47.5%
+5.1pp since 2023-24
District avg 39.7%
County avg 47.5%
+5.1pp since 2023-24
Test scores
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IAR + ISA + HS Assessment, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient (Levels 4-5).Mathematics
87.0%
State avg 37.9%
District avg 23.8%
County avg 33.7%
+19.3pp since 2023-24
District avg 23.8%
County avg 33.7%
+19.3pp since 2023-24
Science
76.5%
State avg 40.3%
District avg 26.5%
County avg 34.2%
-14.0pp since 2023-24
District avg 26.5%
County avg 34.2%
-14.0pp since 2023-24
What this means: On the IAR + ISA + HS Assessment, Illinois's statewide test, about 92 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 87 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 77 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51, 38, and 40. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 19 points and science scores are down about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
85.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+35.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 35 points, placing it in Illinois's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
2-year history
All grades, all students. McDade Illinois avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 91.6% | 39.7% | 47.5% | 51.0% |
| SY 2023-24 | 86.5% | 28.1% | 35.1% | 38.5% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 87.0% | 23.8% | 33.7% | 37.9% |
| SY 2023-24 | 67.7% | 15.9% | 23.8% | 27.3% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 76.5% | 26.5% | 34.2% | 40.3% |
| SY 2023-24 | 90.5% | 32.6% | 42.5% | 50.9% |
How to read these scores
What is IAR + ISA + HS Assessment?
Illinois public-school students in grades 3 through 8 take the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) in English Language Arts and Math each spring. The Illinois Science Assessment (ISA) is administered at grades 5, 8, and 11. High school students take the SAT (or PreACT in current administrations) as the state accountability assessment.
What does "% Proficient (Levels 4-5)" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at Level 4 ("Met Expectations") or Level 5 ("Exceeded Expectations") on the IAR 5-level scale. Levels 4 and 5 signal the student is performing at grade level or above. A higher number is better.
What does 91.6% mean for English Language Arts at McDade Elem Classical School?
It means about 91.6 percent of students tested at McDade Elem Classical School performed at grade level or above on the IAR + ISA + HS Assessment English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Illinois that year was 51.0%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Illinois, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), Report Card Public Data Set. Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) for grades 3-8 ELA + Math, Illinois Science Assessment (ISA) at grades 5, 8, 11, plus the SAT / PreACT high-school assessment. Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient" rate (Levels 4 + 5 on the IAR 5-level scale).
How often is it updated?
IAR + ISA + HS Assessment is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.