The Illinois State Board of Education has released data from their 2017 Kindergarten Individual Development Survey or “KIDS” and Vermilion County Public Schools participated.
The survey assessed the readiness of the children in three developmental areas: social and emotional development, language and literacy development, and math at the beginning of the 2017 school year.
Danville District 118 had 79% of their kindergartners rated; over half, 54% were judged not ready in all three developmental areas. 16% were ready in one, 14% in two, and 16% in all three were ready according to the study.
39% were rated ready in Social and Emotional Development, 30% in Language and Literacy, and 23% in Math. All of those numbers were somewhat below statewide averages, with literacy 14 points lower than the state mark.
Bismarck-Henning District had 90% of their students polled, and beat the state average in students ready in all three areas at 36% to the states’ 24%. They were slightly ahead of the average in students social and math development, and even in literacy.
Georgetown-Ridge Farm schools trailed in every category except for those ready in just one developmental area. 49% of students there were assessed with no areas of readiness.
Hoopeston schools scored well, beating the state mark in almost all categories, well ahead of average in students’ social and literacy development, and just one percentage point behind in math.
Oakwood’s school district numbers were almost identical to the state average, varying in just a couple points up and down across the board.
Salt Fork schools did almost the same, except with a 28% readiness mark in language and literacy compared to the state 44% mark.
Westville numbers were also a near match to the state averages, but topped the state number for social development by 6 percentage points and fell short of the math mark by 5 points.
The raw numbers are available at https://www.isbe.net/kids.
The site calls the survey “an observational tool designed to help teachers
