Dee-mack Intermediate School, Deer Creek IL

Original Research by School Decision on Dee-mack Intermediate School

Dee-Mack Intermediate School serves grades four through six in a small rural village that is part of a two-town school district. The school itself sits near the center of Deer Creek, a quiet residential community roughly a short drive from Peoria. The district also includes a primary building and high school located in neighboring Mackinaw.

The student body is predominantly white, with a small population of Hispanic and multiracial students. The school enrolls a small cohort for the grade band it serves. Data on free-and-reduced-price lunch eligibility and special education or English learner enrollment were not available from the district.

Test results on Illinois state assessments show uneven performance across grades and subjects. In English language arts, the school demonstrates strength in grades four and five, where a substantial majority of students achieved proficiency. Grade six results also show proficiency above the state's midpoint, though lower than the upper grades. In mathematics, the picture is different: grade four shows solid proficiency rates, but this falls substantially in grade five and drops notably further in grade six, where only a minority of students tested proficient. Science assessment results were available only for grade five, where proficiency is modestly above the state midpoint. Grade three results and grades seven and eight are not reported because this school does not serve those grades; grades seven and eight do not appear in the district's intermediate school configuration.

Across the subjects and grades where data are available, the school's overall proficiency index sits above the midpoint among districts in Tazewell County, according to the comparison set. This reflects strength in the upper elementary band, offset by a meaningful decline in sixth-grade mathematics. A parent may want to understand with the school whether the mathematics trajectory reflects curriculum shifts at that grade level, staffing, or student cohort differences, and what supports are in place to address it.

The district recently completed a new athletics and activities complex at the high school, an investment that adds facility quality and extracurricular reach for families.

Deer Creek itself is a flat or slowly declining village in agricultural countryside, positioned as a bedroom community for commuters to Peoria and Bloomington. The housing market in Tazewell County has been appreciating recently and remains affordable relative to state and national benchmarks. The village has no significant new housing development underway, and commercial life centers on a handful of small family-owned businesses rather than major employers. The school district serves as a notable institutional anchor in the area.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 467%

School 67% · District 67%

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

Grade 544%

School 44% · District 44%

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 625%

School 25% · District 25%

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

English language arts

Grade 475%

School 75% · District 75%

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 582%

School 82% · District 82%

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 662%

School 62% · District 62%

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Science

Grade 564%

School 64% · District 64%

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

This schoolDeer Creek-Mackinaw CUSD 701, 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.