Hollis Consolidated Grade Sch, Peoria IL

Original Research by School Decision on Hollis Consolidated Grade Sch

Hollis Consolidated Grade School is a small public school serving kindergarten through eighth grade in Peoria, serving a student body that is predominantly white and drawn from surrounding areas, with enrollment clustered around mid-single-digit and low double-digit counts per grade. The school operates in Peoria County under a district that has taken on a substantial building bond recently, approved by voters in spring 2025 to expand security, accessibility, and educational spaces at the school. The bond doubled the district's debt-service property tax burden, a material change for families considering the school and the area.

Academic performance shows mixed results by grade and subject. In mathematics, students in grades three through five and grade six cluster around the midpoint for proficiency, while grade eight shows notably stronger performance. English language arts results are more variable: third grade is well below the midpoint, fourth and sixth grades are modestly above it, fifth grade reaches a solid level, and eighth grade performs comparably to math. Science assessment is available only for grades five and eight, where fifth grade sits below the midpoint and eighth grade aligns with its math and ELA results. Students in grade seven have no reported test results for math and English language arts, a gap that may reflect an assessment or enrollment circumstance specific to that grade. Overall, the school's proficiency index places it in the top quartile among Peoria County's school districts, a strength anchored largely by strong performance in the upper grades.

The school draws from Peoria, a mid-sized city in the region dominated by healthcare and manufacturing. OSF Healthcare and Caterpillar are the major employers. The city's housing market is moderately affordable relative to state benchmarks, though inventory is tight and new private development is sparse. Peoria is undergoing slow, targeted redevelopment focused on downtown and the Warehouse District; the Hollis school site sits on Tuscarora Road in a residential area without a distinctive neighborhood character profile in the available data. The area has public transit via CityLink and parks including Glen Oak Park and the Peoria Riverfront, and home values show modest annual growth.

A key feature for families outside Hollis Township is the district's reduced non-resident tuition rate, roughly half the standard amount, enabled by a state waiver expiring at the end of the 2026-2027 school year. This makes the school accessible at lower cost to families from surrounding Peoria neighborhoods who might otherwise be outside the district boundary. For families seeking small-school atmosphere and peer composition that is predominantly white and rural or semi-rural in character, or for those leveraging the non-resident tuition option to access a particular program or peer environment, this school offers a concrete alternative to larger Peoria district schools. Parents evaluating this school may want to look into the eighth-grade strength in detail to understand whether it reflects curriculum changes, staffing, or testing conditions, and to assess whether the grade-seven data gap signals any enrollment or instructional shifts that might be relevant to their child's pathway.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 350%

School 50% · District 50%

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

Grade 447%

School 47% · District 47%

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 550%

School 50% · District 50%

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

Grade 653%

School 53% · District 53%

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

Grade 872%

School 72% · District 72%

▲ 50 pts above state median · ▲ 56 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 328%

School 28% · District 28%

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 459%

School 59% · District 59%

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

Grade 570%

School 70% · District 70%

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

Grade 663%

School 63% · District 63%

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 867%

School 67% · District 67%

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Science

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 40%

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

Grade 872%

School 72% · District 72%

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 42 pts above county median

This schoolHollis Cons SD 328, 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.