Summary:
The city of North Aurora, Illinois is home to 4 schools, including 3 elementary schools and 1 middle school, all part of the Aurora West Unified School District 129. The data reveals significant disparities in academic performance and student demographics across these schools, with Fearn Elementary School standing out as the highest performer, while Schneider Elementary and Goodwin Elementary struggle with lower test scores and higher rates of poverty and chronic absenteeism.
Fearn Elementary has the highest performance on state assessments, with 30.2% of students proficient or better in English Language Arts and 28.9% proficient or better in Mathematics, significantly higher than the district and state averages. In contrast, the other elementary schools and Jewel Middle School generally underperform the state averages in both subjects. Jewel Middle School stands out as the only middle school in the data set, with the highest proficiency rates in English Language Arts and Science compared to the elementary schools.
The data also reveals a potential correlation between student socioeconomic status and academic achievement, as the schools with the highest rates of free/reduced lunch recipients, Schneider and Goodwin Elementary, also have the lowest test scores. Additionally, several schools, such as Jewel Middle and Goodwin Elementary, show declining performance on state assessments over the past few years, which is a concerning trend.
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