North Clay Elem/Jr High Sch
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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 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 19 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 50% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About North Clay Elem/Jr High Sch
As a moderately sized elementary campus in Louisville, Illinois, North Clay Elem/Jr High Sch caters to 379 students from grades pre-K through 8, operated by North Clay CUSD 25.
North Clay CUSD 25 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 557 students. North Clay Elem/Jr High Sch is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, North Clay Elem/Jr High Sch shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest reads as 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, North Clay Elem/Jr High Sch logs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 37% of students at North Clay Elem/Jr High Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Clay County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, North Clay Elem/Jr High Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.0%; actual is 34.0%, a gap of -16.0 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Clay County indicate median household income runs about $60,417, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. North Clay Elem/Jr High Sch is one of 8 public schools in Clay County (combined enrollment of about 2,130 students).
North Clay Community High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts North Clay Elem/Jr High Sch at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 33.6%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Over the past 7-year window. North Clay Elem/Jr High Sch's enrollment has ticked down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 443 (now 379). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.
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