Summary:
Worth School District 127 in Illinois has only one middle school, Worth Junior High School, which serves students in grades 6-8. The school has seen fluctuating performance in its statewide ranking over the past three years, moving from 391st out of 1,363 Illinois middle schools in 2023-2024 to 522nd out of 1,367 in 2022-2023, and then 664th out of 1,369 in 2021-2022.
Worth Junior High School's strengths lie in its English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency rates, which range from 58.5% (6th grade) to 74.2% (7th grade) in 2023-2024, outperforming the district and state averages. However, the school's Mathematics proficiency rates, ranging from 11.3% (6th grade) to 28.1% (8th grade) in 2023-2024, generally underperform the district and state averages. The school's Science proficiency rate for all grades in 2023-2024 was 57.3%, slightly above the district and state averages.
Worth Junior High School faces some challenges, including a relatively high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (65.32% in 2022-2023) and a chronic absenteeism rate of 36.3% in the 2023-2024 school year, which is relatively high. The school's spending per student for the 2022-2023 school year was $16,744, and the student-teacher ratio was 12.5 in the same year.
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