The top reported proficiency rate is 28% in Science. The lowest is 10% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Northview Elem School
Northview Elementary is a kindergarten through fifth grade school in Rantoul City School District 137, serving a student body of about two hundred forty that spans the full racial and ethnic spectrum of the district, with substantial shares of Black, white, Hispanic, and multiracial students. The school sits in a small village north of Champaign County shaped by the closure of Chanute Air Force Base and its subsequent industrial redevelopment, where manufacturing jobs, affordable mid-century housing, and proximity to the university towns anchor working families.
The school's recent context has shifted meaningfully. In 2025, the district reorganized its elementary schools into a Companion Schools Model, pairing buildings by grade band rather than running traditional K-5 schools. Northview now serves kindergarten through second grade only, partnering with Broadmeadow Elementary, which handles grades three through five. This means that families expect their children to change school buildings as they move from the primary grades into intermediate years. Simultaneously, the district introduced a new literacy framework with ongoing instructional coaching from Focused Schools, fundamentally altering how reading is taught across every elementary classroom. These are not cosmetic changes; they reshape which building a child attends, who their teachers are year to year, and the approach to foundational instruction.
On academic performance, Northview's 2024-25 test results from Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) show proficiency rates in single digits and the low twenties across grades three, four, and five in mathematics, with slightly higher performance in English language arts. In grade three ELA, proficiency reached the low twenties. Grade four showed similar patterns, and grade five, the school's highest-tested grade, posted proficiency just above thirty percent in ELA and in the mid-twenties in science. Mathematics proficiency across these grades clusters in the single digits and low teens. When placed against other districts in Champaign County, Northview's overall proficiency index sits in the bottom quartile. These numbers reflect a school where the vast majority of students are not meeting state proficiency standards, and a parent may want to look into further detail with the school about intervention strategies, curriculum changes tied to the new literacy framework, and how the Companion Schools Model transition is expected to support student growth over the coming years.
State testing results are available only for grades three through five, since younger grades are not assessed in Illinois. Grade six and beyond show no proficiency data, likely because those grades are now served by other schools under the reorganized model.
Free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility data was not available, and enrollment counts in special education and English learner services were not reported, so specifics on student support needs and socioeconomic context remain incomplete. Housing data for the Rantoul area shows moderate home values and rental costs, with housing affordability measured against national standards as modest. The community is economically anchored by manufacturing, educational services, and health care employment on and around the former base. Rantoul Public Library, a shared-use path network, and C-CARTS rural transit provide civic infrastructure, while the village is undertaking downtown streetscape revitalization and housing rehabilitation work through Community Development Block Grants.
Northview's grade configuration and instructional changes are new enough that parents considering the school should understand the transition actively underway. The academic performance data, alongside the pedagogy shift to the literacy framework, signals that the school is in a period of instructional reset. Whether that leads to measurable gains will emerge in coming years of assessment data, but the choice to invest in structured coaching and a district-wide literacy approach suggests the leadership recognizes the performance floor and is taking deliberate steps to address it.
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