Virginia Elem School, Virginia IL

Original Research by School Decision on Virginia Elem School

Virginia Elementary School serves prekindergarten through fifth grade in Virginia, a small rural county seat in Cass County. The school sits on a consolidated campus with the junior and senior high schools, away from the downtown square that anchors civic life in town.

The school's enrollment is small, at roughly a mid-sized range for a K-5 school in a rural area, with a student body that is predominantly white and reflective of the town's composition. The school is not a Title I school, and free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not available; housing in the area is quite affordable, with median home values well below the state benchmark and monthly mortgage costs modest relative to median household income.

On state assessments in 2024-25, Virginia Elementary's proficiency results show a school working in a lower-performing range. In third grade, about four in ten students reached proficiency in both math and English language arts. Fourth grade showed somewhat stronger performance, with six in ten proficient in math and about half in ELA. Fifth grade results declined, with about one-third proficient in math and somewhat less than half in ELA. Science proficiency in fifth grade was notably low, with less than one-quarter of students at or above proficiency. Test participation was high across all grades, so these results reflect actual performance rather than absenteeism during assessment.

Relative to other districts in Cass County, Virginia Elementary's overall proficiency index places it above the midpoint, though the absolute numbers tell a story of academic struggle in the upper elementary grades, particularly in mathematics and science. The school does not serve high school students, so a graduation rate is not applicable.

Virginia is a town in sustained population decline, with most housing built well before mid-century and very little new residential construction. The school operates in a context of slow contraction rather than growth. No recent major district changes such as curriculum shifts or referenda were documented in available sources. A parent may want to discuss with the school what targeted support exists for students not yet proficient, particularly in grades four and five mathematics, and what curriculum or instructional strategies are in place to address the science proficiency gap.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 340%

School 40% · District 40%

▼ 6 pts below state median

Grade 460%

School 60% · District 60%

▲ 23 pts above state median

Grade 537%

School 37% · District 37%

▲ 7 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 340%

School 40% · District 40%

▼ 4 pts below state median

Grade 452%

School 52% · District 52%

▲ 4 pts above state median

Grade 542%

School 42% · District 42%

▼ 10 pts below state median

Science

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 24%

▼ 13 pts below state median

This schoolVirginia CUSD 64, 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.