Wallace Elem School, Ottawa IL - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Wallace Elem School

Wallace Elem School serves preK through grade 8 in Ottawa, Illinois, as the single school of Wallace CCSD 195. The enrollment is small, spanning roughly four hundred students across ten grade levels, with a student body that is predominantly white, with a smaller share of Hispanic students and a handful of students from other backgrounds.

The school's academic profile shows a mixed picture across tested grades and subjects. In math, third and sixth graders struggled most, while fourth and fifth graders performed considerably stronger. English language arts results are generally more consistent and higher overall, with seventh graders showing particularly strong performance and third graders the lowest. Science proficiency in the tested grades (fifth and eighth) hovered near the midpoint of the range. The data captures only the most recent year and does not permit year-to-year trend analysis.

Relative to districts in LaSalle County, Wallace's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile, a strength. The school draws from Ottawa, a small Illinois River city with a revitalized walkable downtown, riverfront parks, and a local economy centered on health care, retail, and education. Housing in the area is affordable by state and national standards, and the community includes a public library, state parks, and canal trails within reasonable reach.

State testing results for lower elementary grades (preK through grade 2) are not available because those grades are not tested under Illinois assessment. The school does not report free-or-reduced-price-lunch data, special education enrollment rates, or English learner counts in the provided data, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about student demographics and support services. No information about the district's recent strategic priorities, staffing changes, or operational developments emerged from available sources, a gap typical of very small single-school districts.

Wallace serves mixed grade bands in one building. Parents choosing this school should understand it as a K-8 model without a separate high school, meaning eighth graders will transition to secondary education elsewhere. The school appears to align with the character of Ottawa itself: a small, locally rooted community institution without the specialized programs or scale of larger suburban districts.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 348%

School 48% · District 48%

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 471%

School 71% · District 71%

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

Grade 587%

School 87% · District 87%

▲ 57 pts above state median · ▲ 55 pts above county median

Grade 632%

School 32% · District 32%

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

Grade 751%

School 51% · District 51%

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

Grade 853%

School 53% · District 53%

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 34 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 356%

School 56% · District 56%

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

Grade 478%

School 78% · District 78%

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 568%

School 68% · District 68%

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

Grade 668%

School 68% · District 68%

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 783%

School 83% · District 83%

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

Grade 878%

School 78% · District 78%

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 28 pts above county median

Science

Grade 547%

School 47% · District 47%

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 848%

School 48% · District 48%

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

This schoolWallace CCSD 195, 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.