2025 APR 28 DATA 2024 Not a single child tested proficient in math in 80 Illinois schools and for reading, it was 24 schools.
TECHNOLOGY IS RUINING YOUR CHILD’S EDUCATION
without prejudice
Opinion
ILLINOIS
No Child Tested proficient in math in 80 schools and No Child in reading, in 24 schools.
Hannah Mariaf: technology is ruining your child’s education
This woman teaches 10th grade high school in America
She’s leaving the profession. She says kids can no longer read proficiently, they won’t pay attention, won’t listen to authority, they don’t think the Declaration of Independence is important, they’re writing their papers with ai like ChatGPT, they don’t know math, they don’t care about history
This video goes over exactly what’s going on in high school classrooms in America
“It's just been a really, poor experience. This generation is really tough. And I will admit that I'm just not cut out for it. Anyone who starts now and will be a teacher from here on out with the generation that we're teaching right now. I commend you” ~ Hannah Mariaf
by: Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
Our 2022 and 2023 data tables showing the dozens of Illinois schools where zero students are proficient in reading and math continue to make the rounds on social media. But it’s time for an update now that the state’s 2024 Report Card data is out… and the results are still dismal.
In 2024, there were 80 Illinois schools where not a single student tested proficient in math and 24 schools where no student tested proficient in reading. In 2023, it was 67 and 32, respectively.
Incredibly, officials in those schools graduated nearly 70% of their students in 2024.
More than 18,000 students attend Illinois’ zero-proficiency schools. Every single one of those children will struggle in life because they lack basic reading and math skills.
Each school on the above list represents a complete failure by local and state education officials.
Take Dunbar Vocational Career Academy on Chicago’s Near South Side. The school, whose motto is “Restoring the Legacy of Excellence” Aiming for Success… and, Nothing Less!!!” spends $26,834 in operational costs on each of its 366 students. The Illinois State Board of Education declares the school “commendable,” the state’s 2nd-highest rating. Despite that, not a single student taking the SAT tested proficient in math and just 2% tested proficient in reading. And yet 72% of students there graduate.
Farther south is Harlan Community Academy HS, which spends nearly $35,000 per student. Not a single student there tested proficient in math or reading on the SAT in 2024. Yet Harlan’s graduation rate is 64%.
Wirepoints’ count of zero-proficiency schools is based on data straight from ISBE’s 2024 Illinois Report Card. The state board measures students’ reading and math proficiencies based on the test results from the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (grades 3-8) and the Scholastic Aptitude Test (grade 11).
It’s important to note that some of the schools on the two lists above are part of Chicago’s Youth Connection Charter School network – schools that target dropouts and other at-risk students. For sure, educating those students represents a major challenge – but that’s no excuse for allowing every single student to fail at those schools. Especially since officials still end up graduating about 40% of students.
We’ve also gotten pushback in previous years from some saying we’re pointing out the worst of the worst – they argue that most Illinois schools are doing well.
Not according to the numbers straight from the state’s report card. We could have just as easily written this piece about the 307 schools where fewer than 10% of students can read at grade level. Or the 853 schools where fewer than 10% can do math.
That’s 9% and 24% of all grade 3-12 schools in the state, respectively.
Illinois education is failing its students
Teaching students the basics of reading and math is the bare minimum function of an educational system. Unfortunately, an increasing number of Illinois schools don’t accomplish that, even though covid is one more year behind us.
In pre-covid 2019 there were 21 zero-reading schools and 37 zero-math schools in Illinois. Now it’s 24 and 80.
Educational freedom for these children can’t come soon enough. Either our lawmakers will finally join the national wave of universal school choice that’s taking over the country, or Illinois will continue to lose. More Illinoisans will leave. Our work force will be increasingly weakened. And more people will become dependent on government.
Ultimately, it all depends on what Illinoisans vote for.
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Acknowledgement Original Sources
Editorial Credit to: Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner | Credit to: Wirepoints | Headline: 2024 data: Not a single child tested proficient in math in 80 Illinois schools. For reading, it was 24 schools | Date-Stamped -(AWST): 2024 APR 28 | Editorial: WIREPOINTS ILLINOIS No Child Tested proficient in math in 80 schools and No Child in reading, in 24 schools. 2024 APR 28.pdf
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