Roxana Junior High School, Roxana IL

Original Research by School Decision on Roxana Junior High School

Roxana Junior High School serves grades six through eight in a small, industrial Madison County village whose economy centers on the adjacent Wood River Refinery. The school draws from a residential community where housing is modest and affordable, and the peer group is predominantly white, with smaller shares of students from Black, Hispanic, and multiracial backgrounds.

The school's most recent state test results reveal a pattern of low overall proficiency. In mathematics, performance ranges from roughly a quarter of students meeting state standards in grade six to around three in ten in grade eight. In English language arts, results are somewhat stronger, with grade six at roughly one in three students proficient, grade seven at near one in two, and grade eighth at slightly above one in two. In science, grade eight results show about one in two students proficient. Participation rates are high—near universal in math and ELA, and above three-quarters in science—so these results reflect genuine student performance rather than testing gaps. The school is positioned above the midpoint among Madison County districts on an overall proficiency index, though this positioning does not offset the fact that the majority of students in most tested grades are not meeting state proficiency standards. A parent may want to look into what specific support systems or interventions the school has in place to address these proficiency gaps and how the school's instructional approach in math, where performance is notably lower, differs from its approach in ELA.

The school's enrollment is small, roughly in the three-hundred-seventy range across three grades. The student body is predominantly white, with racial and ethnic diversity present but limited. Data on free- and reduced-price lunch eligibility, special education enrollment, and English learner status are not available, which limits a full picture of how many students come from economically disadvantaged households or have learning support needs.

The school is part of Roxana Community Unit School District 1, a small district that serves the village and surrounding area. No major district-wide initiatives or changes were documented in publicly available sources, so the school operates within a stable but resource-constrained local educational environment. The housing market in Roxana is affordably priced compared to broader state and national benchmarks, and the community's economic foundation remains tied to refinery employment, which shapes the village's working-class character and, likely, family circumstances for many students. The locale is car-dependent and compact, and civic and school facilities sit within walking distance of one another, though the refinery's large footprint means industrial zoning dominates portions of the landscape.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 625%

School 25% · District 25%

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

Grade 727%

School 27% · District 27%

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

Grade 829%

School 29% · District 29%

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

English language arts

Grade 636%

School 36% · District 36%

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 744%

School 44% · District 44%

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

Grade 855%

School 55% · District 55%

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

Science

Grade 845%

School 45% · District 45%

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

This schoolRoxana 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.