Evansville Attendance Center, Evansville IL

Original Research by School Decision on Evansville Attendance Center

Evansville Attendance Center serves kindergarten through eighth grade in a small village in rural Randolph County, Illinois. The school's enrollment is small, with roughly balanced numbers across grades, the bulk of the student body made up of white students, and very few students identifying as Hispanic or from other backgrounds. The school's testing data shows academic proficiency rates well below the median for other schools in Randolph County.

In math, the most recent state assessment results show proficiency rates that vary by grade: one grade shows performance in the lowest quartile, grades in the middle ranges hover in the low-to-mid range, and earlier grades did not report data. In English language arts, fourth-grade students achieved around forty percent proficiency, while seventh graders performed somewhat better at roughly forty-six percent. Eighth-grade ELA proficiency stands significantly lower. In science, eighth-grade students showed proficiency around thirty-six percent; fifth-grade science data was not reported. Across all tested subjects and grades combined, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile when compared to other schools in Randolph County. All tested students participated in assessments at or near full rates.

The school's test performance is its primary weakness. A parent may want to discuss with the school what instructional strategies are in place and what remediation or tutoring is available, particularly in math, where proficiency has been quite low. The school's small size means teachers likely know students well, and the rural, family-oriented setting of Evansville itself is a stable residential community, though the village population has been declining modestly over recent years.

Evansville Attendance Center is the sole K-8 school in the village; students transition to Sparta High School in the nearby town of Sparta for grades nine through twelve. The school building also houses a public library, and the community includes four churches and basic local services. The nearby Sparta school district showed no recent major changes in strategy or operations that were publicly reported.

No free-or-reduced-price lunch figures, staff counts, special education enrollment rates, or English learner data were available in public records. The school receives no special magnet or Title I designation. Housing in the zip code area is modestly valued relative to state and national benchmarks, and mortgages are affordable by national standards.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 410%

School 10% · District 34% · ▼ 24 pts below district

▼ 27 pts below state median

Grade 633%

School 33% · District 28% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 9 pts above state median

Grade 731%

School 31% · District 37% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median

Grade 821%

School 21% · District 19% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 1 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 440%

School 40% · District 59% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median

Grade 642%

School 42% · District 48% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median

Grade 746%

School 46% · District 64% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median

Grade 814%

School 14% · District 37% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 39 pts below state median

Science

Grade 836%

School 36% · District 37% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median

This schoolSparta CUSD 140, 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.