Milford Grade School West Campus, Milford IL

Original Research by School Decision on Milford Grade School West Campus

Milford Grade School West Campus serves pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in a small rural village in southeastern Iroquois County. The school sits on South Chicago Street in the compact downtown, within walking distance of the village library and other civic anchors. The setting is a close-knit agricultural community where housing costs are well below state and national benchmarks, and most families own their homes.

The school enrolls a small population across ten grade bands. The student body is predominantly white, with a smaller Hispanic enrollment and very few students from other racial or ethnic backgrounds. Racial demographic breakdowns are available in the school's data profile. Free and reduced price lunch data was not available.

State testing results from the most recent year paint a clear picture: academic proficiency across tested grades and subjects is low. In mathematics, proficiency ranges from around one in six students at the fifth and eighth grade levels to roughly four in ten at seventh grade, with other grades falling in between. In English language arts, performance is somewhat higher, with seventh and eighth graders reaching around half proficiency or slightly below, but third through sixth graders cluster in the low twenties to mid-thirties. Science proficiency at fifth grade sits at roughly three in ten, and at eighth grade near one in three. Across all tested subjects and grades, the school's overall proficiency rate places it in the bottom quartile when compared to other districts in Iroquois County.

The school does not serve high school grades, so no graduation rate applies. Attendance data and information about students with individualized education plans or English learner services were not available.

The larger Milford Area Public School District is deploying a multi-year college and career readiness initiative called PaCE as part of a federally funded GEAR UP grant. The program, which began in 2024-25 with sixth and seventh graders, includes curriculum changes, on-demand tutoring, and one-on-one college advising for upper grades, with new cohorts added each year. This represents a district-wide shift in how students from this grade school will be prepared for post-secondary pathways once they advance.

A parent or resident evaluating Milford Grade School West Campus should understand that it is a small, town-center school with low state testing results across both math and literacy. The low proficiency rates are not offset by available data showing strengths in other dimensions; staffing, course offerings, discipline, and attendance metrics were not provided. A family considering enrollment may want to discuss with the school what academic supports and intervention strategies are in place to address these proficiency gaps, and how the emerging district-level college readiness work will begin to shape the student experience.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 338%

School 38% · District 38%

▼ 9 pts below state median

Grade 432%

School 32% · District 32%

▼ 5 pts below state median

Grade 517%

School 17% · District 17%

▼ 13 pts below state median

Grade 624%

School 24% · District 24%

even with state median

Grade 741%

School 41% · District 41%

▲ 13 pts above state median

Grade 819%

School 19% · District 19%

▼ 4 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 325%

School 25% · District 25%

▼ 19 pts below state median

Grade 425%

School 25% · District 25%

▼ 23 pts below state median

Grade 522%

School 22% · District 22%

▼ 30 pts below state median

Grade 635%

School 35% · District 35%

▼ 16 pts below state median

Grade 753%

School 53% · District 53%

▲ 2 pts above state median

Grade 847%

School 47% · District 47%

▼ 7 pts below state median

Science

Grade 531%

School 31% · District 31%

▼ 6 pts below state median

Grade 833%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 7 pts below state median

This schoolMilford Area PSD 124, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.