St George Elem School, Bourbonnais IL

Original Research by School Decision on St George Elem School

St George Elementary School in Bourbonnais serves children from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in a single school building, making it the entire enrollment of St George Community Consolidated School District 258. The school is located in a mid-sized suburban village of Kankakee County in the Chicagoland region, anchored by Olivet Nazarene University, a traditional downtown with French-Canadian heritage, and a network of parks and trails along the Kankakee River. The village is adding residential growth on its western side and has invested recently in civic amenities, making it a place where families with young children and through middle-school-age students often stay in a single, established building.

The school's academic results show a characteristic pattern across Illinois's IAR assessments: third-grade math proficiency is quite strong, but reading and math proficiency decline as students move into upper elementary and middle grades. Third graders show solid math and reading outcomes, but by grades five and six proficiency dips meaningfully in both subjects. Reading (ELA) proficiency holds relatively steadier and begins to recover again in grades seven and eight, while math remains flat through the middle grades. Science proficiency, tested in grade five and eight, sits around the midpoint. Across all tested grades and subjects, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile when compared to districts in Kankakee County, reflecting the strength in lower elementary but also the scale of the proficiency gap that emerges as students age.

A parent might want to look into what support structures the school has in place for students in grades four through six, where the largest proficiency declines occur. The school does not report its free-or-reduced-price-lunch rate, English learner enrollment, or special education enrollment, so those details are not available here. Chronic absenteeism data and graduation rates do not apply to this PreK-8 school; a complete picture of student engagement and outcomes would require asking the school directly about attendance and where its graduates attend high school.

The school building itself is quite new in its current form. A referendum passed in 2021 funded a major expansion that added classroom space, flexible learning areas, an outdoor classroom, and upgraded facilities, eliminating mobile classrooms so that all students learn under one roof. That investment reflects both family demand and community commitment, and it shapes what parents see when they visit. The enrollment is stable at about four hundred students across ten grade bands, with the largest grade being seventh. The student body is predominantly white, with smaller shares of Black, Hispanic, Asian, and multiracial students. The town's housing market has been appreciating modestly, and new residential subdivisions are in planning or early development on the village's western edge.

For families in Bourbonnais or nearby, St George offers neighborhood-school continuity from early childhood through eighth grade, strong foundational performance in the earliest tested grades, and a recently renovated facility. The pattern of proficiency decline in upper elementary warrants direct conversation with school staff about reading and math support and intervention during those critical transition years.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 385%

School 85% · District 85%

▲ 38 pts above state median · ▲ 40 pts above county median

Grade 456%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 543%

School 43% · District 43%

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

Grade 639%

School 39% · District 39%

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

Grade 753%

School 53% · District 53%

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

Grade 856%

School 56% · District 56%

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

English language arts

Grade 359%

School 59% · District 59%

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 467%

School 67% · District 67%

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

Grade 560%

School 60% · District 60%

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

Grade 659%

School 59% · District 59%

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

Grade 768%

School 68% · District 68%

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

Grade 869%

School 69% · District 69%

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

Science

Grade 550%

School 50% · District 50%

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 849%

School 49% · District 49%

▲ 9 pts above state median · even with county median

This schoolSt George CCSD 258, 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.