Quincy Reporter

Test results show 22.4% of Adams County students passed the Mathematics portion of the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) test in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

The number of Adams County students who succeeded rose by 2.9% compared to the previous school year.

Woodford County County had the highest success rate across the state, with 44.1% of its students passing the Mathematics portion of the IAR. Schools in Alexander County County, on the other hand, performed the worst, with 95.8% of students failing to meet test requirements.

The IAR measures how well students in grades 3-8 are progressing in meeting the English Language Arts and Mathematics standards set by Illinois.

Based on their reading scores on the NAEP, public school students from Illinois managed to stay relatively on par with the national level, according to the National Center for Education and Statistics.

Assessment participation rates in 2023 are at or above the 95% testing threshold, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

School	Students who met standards (%)	Students who exceed standards (%)	Total enrollment
Unity Elementary School	37%	5.4%	279
Liberty Elementary School	29.6%	4.3%	342
Liberty High School	28.2%	3.5%	273
Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School	28.1%	5.1%	545
Dr. Abby Fox Rooney Elementary School	27.9%	3.9%	479
Colonel George Iles Elementary School	23%	2.3%	540
Sarah Atwater Denman Elementary School Site 2	20.2%	3.9%	537
Thomas S. Baldwin Elementary School Site 2	19.6%	2.5%	560
Seymour Elementary School	17.9%	0.7%	248
Unity Middle School	16.3%	0.5%	207
Quincy Junior High School	16%	2.1%	1,342
Central Junior High School	13.9%	0%	248
Seymour High School	11.6%	0%	233
Central 3-4 Middle School	11%	2%	106