W a Johnson Sch, Bensenville IL - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on W a Johnson Sch

W A Johnson School is a public elementary school in Bensenville serving kindergarten through fifth grade. The school sits on a residential street in a mixed-character village that combines walkable historic neighborhoods with a substantial industrial base near O'Hare. The enrollment is small to moderate for its grade band, with a student body that is mostly Hispanic, followed by a substantial white population, with smaller numbers of Asian, Black, and multiracial students. Demographic data on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility and English learner status were not available.

On the most recent state assessment results, the school's performance in elementary grades reflects consistent academic challenge across both math and English language arts. In third and fourth grade, math proficiency sat at around four in ten students, with fifth grade lower at around three in ten. English language arts showed a similar pattern in third and fourth grade but improved notably in fifth grade, where about half of tested students met proficiency. Science proficiency in fifth grade was around a third of students. State testing data were not reported for grades six through eight, a gap that reflects the school's K-5 configuration; students move to middle school after fifth grade. The school's overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile of schools across DuPage County districts.

These results suggest the school is working with students who arrive with significant academic gaps and may be building foundational skills over time, with some upward movement visible by the upper elementary grades in English language arts. A parent may want to look into further detail with the school about the interventions being used to support students in math, where gains were less pronounced across the grade span.

Bensenville itself is a village in active economic transition, with steady growth driven by O'Hare proximity and residential reinvestment in the downtown core. New construction townhomes near the Metra station and downtown are attracting younger professionals, and home values have moved upward year over year. The school district completed substantial facility improvements without a property tax referendum and is currently funding a middle school renovation from existing cash reserves, decisions that have spared homeowners additional levies while modernizing spaces. The district adopted a "Portrait of a Graduate" framework in 2020 to guide curriculum design around competencies and personal attributes for an uncertain future.

Student participation in state testing was universal or near-universal across all tested grades, indicating consistent assessment engagement. The school's website was not provided in the available data, so detailed information about specific programs, staffing, or parent communication channels is not available here. A prospective family might want to gather additional information directly from the school about math support structures, teaching approaches to reading and writing, and the range of enrichment or intervention options available to students across the grade band.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 338%

School 38% · District 42% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

Grade 438%

School 38% · District 36% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 528%

School 28% · District 26% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 333%

School 33% · District 31% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 29 pts below county median

Grade 439%

School 39% · District 44% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 29 pts below county median

Grade 554%

School 54% · District 54%

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Science

Grade 534%

School 34% · District 32% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

This schoolBensenville SD 2, 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.