Our kids deserve better.
About the Wilmette Schools Project
Our schools are a centerpiece of our community. Test scores are only one narrow measure of how they are performing.
But when scores are falling quickly and we are consistently failing to meet growth expectations, the test scores are telling us something is going wrong—and calling the community to action.
The Evidence Speaks for Itself
Harper School Rated a ‘6’ on Great Schools
GreatSchools.org rates schools from 1-10 on academic progress, equity, and test scores.
Currently Harper is rated a 6, WJHS is a 7.
98 Fewer Students are Proficient at WJHS in 2019 compared to 2015
Students all across Illinois take the IAR test (formerly the PARCC), and based on their test scores they achieve proficiency or not. At Wilmette Junior High School proficiency rates dropped from 77% to 67% over 5 years in math, and from 73% to 61% in reading. This drop means that 98 more WJHS are not proficient than would have been with the 2015 proficiency rates.
Other Similar Districts Significantly Outperform
On average, Wilmette school district has a 65% proficiency rate. That’s about 10 percentage points lower than our neighboring districts.