The top reported proficiency rate is 60% in English language arts. The lowest is 47% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Greenville Elem School
Greenville Elementary School serves pre-K through fifth grade in a small Illinois city anchored by Greenville University and a stable base of education, healthcare, and manufacturing employment. The school is part of Bond County CUSD 2, which underwent significant consolidation in 2022 when the board closed Sorento School and redistributed its students to Pocahontas and Greenville, a permanent shift that reshaped attendance boundaries and where families in the county send their children.
The school's enrollment sits around 500 students, spread fairly evenly across kindergarten through fifth grade. The student body is predominantly white, with smaller shares of students identifying as multiracial, Hispanic, or Black. Data on free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility and special education or English learner enrollment were not available. The community and school neighborhood are mixed: Greenville itself has a walkable downtown square with shops and a library, plus a Greenville University campus, but the broader area is car-dependent, with industrial parks along Interstate 70 to the south.
Academic performance shows a mixed picture across grade levels. In English language arts, third and fourth graders showed proficiency rates near or slightly above the midpoint, while fifth graders performed notably stronger. In mathematics, third graders reached proficiency at a solid rate, but results declined markedly by fourth and fifth grade. Fifth-grade science proficiency was roughly at the midpoint. These results reflect a pattern some families may want to look into further: performance begins stronger in lower elementary and narrows as students advance, particularly in mathematics by upper elementary. The school's overall proficiency rate across tested subjects and grades places it in the top quartile relative to other districts in Bond County, though Bond County is a small comparison group with only a couple of districts.
State testing data for grades six and above do not appear in the school's results because Greenville Elementary serves only through fifth grade; students advance to a separate junior high school for middle grades. This is typical for the district's structure.
The housing market in the Greenville zip code is moderately priced relative to state and national benchmarks, and the area has seen recent affordable housing investment through a lease-to-own subdivision. The city itself is pursuing downtown revitalization and has extended a tax-increment financing district to support that effort. Employment is relatively stable, with the school district, the university, and local manufacturing and healthcare among the main job bases. The broader economic context shows moderate unemployment and a stable median household income, with mortgage rates currently in the mid-six-percent range.
A parent choosing Greenville Elementary should understand that it is a small-town elementary school with a predominantly white enrollment in a stable, education-oriented community. Performance is stronger in early grades and early literacy, with softer results emerging in upper-elementary mathematics. The school sits within a district that has consolidated in recent years, a change that may continue to shape enrollment and resource allocation.
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