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District 202 continues to show improvement on the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) in Language Arts and maintains a commendable designation for the majority of its schools.

The Illinois State Board of Education released the annual Illinois Report Card this week. The Report Card contains school performance data from the 2023-2024 school year.

“We are heavily invested in improving classroom instruction which will provide an opportune learning environment for our students to continue to grow and achieve,” said Dr. Paula Sereleas, District 202 Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction.

Here are the 2023-2024 Report Card areas of highlight:

• Academic progress on the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR)  English Language Arts increased 6.7 percent over last year and has increased year over year the last five years.

• Academic progress on the Illinois Science Assessment (ISA) increased 2 percent over last year

• The percentage of students achieving performance level on the Standardized Achievement Test (SAT) was the highest percentage since 2019

• High school graduation rate demonstrated a small increase over last year at 93.6 percent, close to six percent higher than the state average.

• One hundred percent of our schools participated in the 5 Essentials Climate Survey, which provides the District with feedback from teachers, students, and parents and is used as we work to continually improve our school climate.

District 202 will continue to focus on mathematics at all grade levels and to improve our school-to-home connections to decrease chronic absenteeism and improve student attendance, Sereleas said.

The State of Illinois assigns schools to one of five summative designations based on a number of different metrics.

Exemplary recognizes the highest performing 10 percent of schools across the state. Lincoln Elementary School earned the exemplary designation this year.

Commendable recognized all schools not in the top 10 percent but not in the lowest five percent of schools across the state. This year, all other eligible schools fell into this designation except one.

Wesmere Elementary School fell into the Targeted designation this year.

These two designations demonstrate the diversity of needs across our district, Sereleas said.

Wesmere will work with the Illinois State Board of Education and district administration to improve this designation, she said.