Fisher Grade School, Fisher IL - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Fisher Grade School

Fisher Grade School serves kindergarten through sixth grade in a small rural village in Champaign County, about fifteen miles north of Champaign. The school is part of Fisher Community Unit School District 1, a consolidated district that also operates a junior/senior high school. The village itself is a quiet, family-oriented place with a compact footprint, known for events like the Fisher Community Fair and Horse Show and the Lucky Foot Festival. Most residents commute to jobs in Champaign-Urbana or Bloomington-Normal; the village has been growing modestly and is actively investing in residential development and recreation infrastructure.

The school's enrollment is small, typical for a rural elementary school of this size. The student body is predominantly white, with very small numbers of students from other racial and ethnic backgrounds. No data on free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility, English learners, or special education enrollment is available, so a parent seeking that information should contact the school directly.

Academic performance is mixed. In English language arts, the school shows strength in sixth grade, where proficiency runs well above the midpoint. In third and fourth grades, proficiency is close to or slightly above fifty percent. Fifth grade lags noticeably behind. In mathematics, performance is variable by grade. Third grade hovers around fifty percent; fourth grade is below that. Fifth grade drops further. Sixth grade rebounds to above fifty-five percent. Science proficiency in fifth grade, the only grade tested, is notably low at around thirty-five percent. Overall proficiency across all tested subjects and grades sits above the midpoint for elementary schools in Champaign County, but the pattern within the school is uneven, and science appears to be an area of particular concern.

It is worth noting that Illinois changed its proficiency cut scores for the Illinois Assessment of Readiness in 2024-25, so direct year-to-year comparisons with prior results are not available in this data. A parent may want to ask the school about longer-term trends and what instructional adjustments are underway, especially in science and in fifth-grade mathematics and language arts.

The school offers no special programs, career pathways, or dual-credit courses; these are typical only at the secondary level and beyond the scope of an elementary school. The school website was not included in the available information, so a parent should seek it out for details on daily operations, classroom structure, before-and-after-school offerings, and community involvement.

Fisher is a car-dependent village with no fixed-route public transit. The school building is located on the south side of the village, away from the downtown commercial area. Housing in the area is moderately affordable relative to national benchmarks and is appreciating. The village's recent growth push and residential development projects suggest a community that sees itself as a stable place to raise a family, even as it functions largely as a bedroom community for larger urban centers nearby.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 351%

School 51% · District 51%

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 449%

School 49% · District 49%

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 539%

School 39% · District 39%

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

Grade 658%

School 58% · District 58%

▲ 34 pts above state median · ▲ 32 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 353%

School 53% · District 53%

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

Grade 459%

School 59% · District 59%

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 548%

School 48% · District 48%

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 693%

School 93% · District 93%

▲ 43 pts above state median · ▲ 49 pts above county median

Science

Grade 535%

School 35% · District 35%

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

This schoolFisher CUSD 1, 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.