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L-P rated ‘approaching exemplary’ in first report card under new state system · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  LP rated approaching exemplary and first Report Card under New State System.
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  Written by Emily Beebe This article is being read by an automated
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  voice brought to you by Everlet. LaSalle Peru Township High School earned
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  an approaching exemplary designation in the 2026 Illinois Report Card released Friday,
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  the first Under the state's redesigned accountability framework, as its four-year graduation
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  rate climbed to 94.8 while chronic absenteeism worsened and enrollment continued
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  to decline. The report card marks the debut of profiles of performance,
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  which the Illinois State Board of Education said sets clearer expectations for
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  school Under the new framework, 28.3 of schools statewide earned exemplary status,
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  compared with about 10 under the previous system. LP was rated commendable
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  a year, ago, though the categories are not directly comparable. L LP
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  Superintendent Clayton Thazinger was not the district superintendent during the twenty twenty
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  five to twenty twenty six school year, which is what the data
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  covers, but said the results are a platform to build on. This
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  data came from the 25-26 school year, so I was not here,
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  but I was clearly keeping a track of how LP was doing
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  and we're using that as a platform moving forward, he said. I'm
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  proud of our students and our
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  staff Clearly we want to be the best and do the best
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  for students, and I feel like getting this target of approaching exemplary
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  shows we're headed in the right direction. The school's four-year graduation rate,
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  rose three percentage points to 94.8, well above the state rate of
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  89.8, which set a record this year. The dropout rate was 1.3.
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  I think our staff put in place last year, from my understanding,
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  some new straties and ways we're interacting and working with students to
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  directly address how they're performing in the classroom. And I think that
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  is showing in in that graduation rate, Thiesinger said. Test results were
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  mixed. Among juniors who take the ACT, 54.4 met or exceeded expectations
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  in English language arts. Junior math ACT proficiency is 32.7, and Science
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  CT proficiency is 49.2. Statewide, proficiency rose in all three subjects, according
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  to an ISB news release. Growth was strongest in eleventh grade math
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  at 50.1, and weakest in tenth grade math with 47.8. In ELA,
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  9th graders grew the most at 52.6, and 10th graders the least
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  at 40.4. We need proficiency, but we also need growth, because students
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  may be starting at different places, and I'm happy the state's now
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  placing the emphasis on that growth, Thiesinger said. Chronic absenteeism, students missing
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  ten percent or more of school days, worsened to twenty-four point four
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  percent from twenty-two point two percent, moving opposite a statewide improvement that
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  brought Illinois to twenty-three point five percent. We want them in the
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  classroom, Thiesinger said. We believe that starts with building a positive culture
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  and a positive environment where students want to be here. Gaps between
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  student groups remained wide. The widest gap came in science, where 58.1
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  of white students met or exceeded expectations compared with 30 of Hispanic
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  students. In math, 38.9 of white students were proficient compared with 16.9
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  of Hispanic students. Low-income students posted 19.2 proficiency in math
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  and 43.2 proficiency in English. Student with disabilities scored
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  11.2 proficiency in math and 26.2 in English. English learners
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  scored 17.7 proficiency in English. Enrollment fell to 1,078
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  from 1,137, a decline of about 5. Nearly half
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  the student body, 48.6, is low income. The district spends
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  24,812 per student, with 24,304 coming from state
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  and local sources and 508 coming from federal funds. The district has
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  set three goals for the year: the graduation rate, student attendance and
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  growth on the ACT, with benchmarking tests redesigned to focus on individual
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  student growth. The 2026 Illinois Report Card covers the 2025-26
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  school year. Full results are available at