The Illinois Report Card is an annual report released by the Illinois State Board of Education, detailing how schools, districts, and the state as a whole are performing. Schools in the state are ranked in the following categories each year:
- Exemplary School
- Commendable School
- Targeted Support School
- Comprehensive Support School
- Intensive Support School
We are excited to share that 133 rural schools received the designation of “Exemplary School” in the 2025 Illinois Report Card! This means that 35.7% of all Exemplary Schools in IL are Rural.
Below is the full list of Exemplary Rural Schools. Say congrats to your school district if you’re on the list!
- Alden-Hebron High School
- Alhambra Primary School
- Anna McDonald Elem School
- Breese Elem School
- Brimfield High School
- Brussels High School
- Bureau Valley Elementary and Junior High
- Byron High School 9-12
- C R Hanna Elem School
- Carlock Elem School
- Carlyle Elementary School
- Carterville High School
- Carterville Intermediate School
- Casey-Westfield Jr/Sr High School
- Center Elem School
- Central Comm High School
- Central Elem School
- Chadwick-Milledgeville Elem School
- Chadwick-Milledgeville Jr/Sr High School
- Chester-East Lincoln Elem School
- Cissna Park Jr High School
- Cissna Park Sr High School
- Coal City High School
- Coal City Intermediate School
- Cobden Elem School
- Cumberland Elem School
- Damiansville Elem School
- Dee-Mack High School
- Dee-Mack Primary/Jr High
- Dieterich Elem School
- Donovan Elem School
- Dunlap Grade School
- Dunlap High School
- Dunlap Middle School
- East Coloma – Nelson Elem School
- East Dubuque Jr High
- Edison Elem School
- Elmwood High School
- Erie Elem School
- Eswood C C Grade School
- Eureka High School
- Ewing-Northern Elem School
- Farmingdale Elem School
- Flanagan-Cornell High School
- Floyd Henson Jr High School
- Forreston Grade School
- Freeburg Community High School
- Fremont Elem School
- Geneseo High School
- Goodfield Elem School
- Grant Park High School
- Grantfork Upper Elementary School
- Heyworth High School
- Highland High School
- Howard B Thomas Grade School
- Hudson Elem School
- Illini Bluffs Elementary School
- Indian Creek Elementary School
- Irvington Elem School
- James R Wood Elem School
- Jasper Elem School
- Jefferson Elem School
- Kaneland Blackberry Creek Elem
- Kaneland John Stewart Elem School
- Lena-Winslow High School
- Lena-Winslow Jr High School
- Lexington High School
- Liberty High School
- Lily Lake Grade School
- Lincoln Elem School
- Lincoln Trail Elem School
- Lisbon Grade School
- Longfellow Elem School
- Longfellow Elem School
- Mahomet-Seymour High School
- Mahomet-Seymour Jr High School
- Manhattan Intermediate School
- Marine Elem School
- Maroa-Forsyth Senior High Sch
- Mary Morgan Elem School
- Mascoutah High School
- Metamora High School
- Middletown Prairie Elementary
- Millikin Elem School
- Monticello High School
- Mossville Elementary School
- Murrayville-Woodson Elem School
- New Athens Jr High
- Newark Elem School
- Northside Elem School
- Okawville Grade School
- Okawville Jr/Sr High School
- Olympia West Elem School
- Orion High School
- Pearl City High School
- Polo Comm High School
- Prairie Central Upper Elementary
- Prairieview-Ogden Jr High School
- Prairieview-Ogden North Elem
- Princeville Elem School
- Princeville High School
- Prophetstown Elem School
- R O W V A Elem School
- Rankin Elem School
- Raymond Grade School
- River Ridge Middle School
- Riverdale Sr High School
- Scott Elem School
- Somonauk Middle School
- Sowers Elementary School
- Spoon River Valley Elem School
- Spring Lake Elem School
- St Joseph Middle School
- St Joseph-Ogden High School
- Steeleville High School
- Steward Elementary School
- Stewardson-Strasburg High School
- Teutopolis High School
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary
- Thurgood Marshall School
- Tri-City Elem School
- Tri-Valley High School
- Triad High School
- Triopia Jr-Sr High School
- United Elem Sch – North
- Unity Elementary School
- Warrensburg-Latham Middle School
- Waterloo High School
- West Lincoln-Broadwell Elem School
- Wethersfield Jr/Sr High School
- Williamsfield Elem School
- Wilmington High School
- Wilson Creek Elem School