Dr. Michael Connolly Superintendent at Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 | Official Website
Dr. Michael Connolly Superintendent at Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 | Official Website
These students did not meet the required standards of the ELA portion of the IAR compared to the 28.7% who did.
The total number Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 students who failed their ELA assessments fell by 4.9% from the previous school year.
Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 roughly covers schools within Cook County and has a main office in Wheeling.
The Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) measures how well students in grades 3-8 are progressing toward state standards in English language arts and mathematics.
K-12 enrollment has been declining in Illinois for many years, reflecting the state's demographic changes. Between the 2019–20 and 2022–23 school years, Illinois public school enrollment declined from approximately 1.98 million to 1.85 million students, a decrease of about 127,000 students or 6.4%. This decline is significantly higher than the typical annual decreases of 0.5% to 1.5% observed in the preceding years, reflecting broader demographic shifts within the state.
| School | District | Students who did not meet met standards (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Walt Whitman Elementary School | Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 | 90% |
| Eugene Field Elementary School | Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 | 88.3% |
| Robert Frost Elementary School | Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 | 86.7% |
| Mark Twain Elementary School | Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 | 82.6% |
| Oliver W. Holmes Middle School | Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 | 78.1% |
| Booth Tarkington Elementary School | Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 | 77.7% |
| Joyce Kilmer Elementary School | Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 | 74.7% |
| Edgar A. Poe Elementary School | Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 | 72.2% |
| Henry W. Longfellow Elementary School | Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 | 68.4% |
| J.W. Riley Elementary School | Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 | 63.2% |
| Jack London Middle School | Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 | 61.7% |
| Cooper Middle School | Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 | 53.1% |
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