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Schools in Royal Lakes

Royal Lakes’s public schools

Bunker Hill Community Unit School District 8 and Southwestern Community Unit School District 9 have no state test or graduation results we can use, so there is no Schools grade for Royal Lakes. Each school below is shown with its own results.

—Not gradedK–12Where will my kid go?1/3schools above Illinois’s middle

Tests spring 2021, when 102% of students in Illinois’s tested grades sat them, and the class of 2023’s graduation rate (U.S. Department of Education). How TownRatings grades schools

Reading proficiency
16%
2020–21
Math proficiency
12%
2020–21
Graduate on time
84%
class of 2023
Spent per student
$16.7K
▼ 23% vs IL $21.6K
FY2024 · Southwestern Community Unit School District 9
Students per teacher
13.0
IL 13.6 · smaller classes
Schools in town
0
1,236 students on the public path
In brief

Royal Lakes’s schools, in brief

School by school

1 of Royal Lakes’s 3 district schools with test results score above the middle of Illinois’s 3,406 public schools. Southwestern High School places highest (better than 54%); Wolf Ridge Education Center lowest (31%). See the path ↓

Which school depends on your street

Two elementary schools serve Royal Lakes, graded from C to C, so it’s worth checking the specific school. Then two high schools: Southwestern High School and Bunker Hill High School. See the path ↓

Written from the figures on this page. Tests are from 2020–21, graduation from the class of 2023; each school’s own letter uses 2020–21 results.

Where will my kid go?

Pick a grade. These are the public schools in Royal Lakes, with each school’s own grade.

The path, start to finish
PK–82 schoolsDepends on your addressC
9–122 high schoolsDepends on your addressC+ to B−

Which school depends on your address. To confirm it, ask the Bunker Hill Community Unit School District 8.

Two districts serve Royal Lakes

Spending and class size are shown but don’t count toward the grade. Each district’s own page has every school.

Bunker Hill Community Unit School District 8Grades PK–12 · 2 schools · 573 students, down 2% since 2020–21 · 13.3 per teacher (IL 13.6)
$15,848IL $21,567 · FY2024
C
Southwestern Community Unit School District 9Grades PK–12 · 5 schools · 1,149 students, down 11% since 2020–21 · 12.9 per teacher (IL 13.6)
$16,659IL $21,567 · FY2024
B
Test scores · 2020–21

Close to the state in reading

Reading · PK–12, Bunker Hill Community Unit School District 816%
State average 29.9% · 286 students tested
Math · PK–12, Bunker Hill Community Unit School District 812%
State average 25.8% · 292 students tested
Reading · PK–12, Southwestern Community Unit School District 934%
State average 29.9% · 637 students tested
Math · PK–12, Southwestern Community Unit School District 922%
State average 25.8% · 613 students tested

Royal Lakes vs. its neighbors

Schools grades for the Illinois towns that share Royal Lakes’s borders.

Schools next door
TownSchoolsMain districts
Royal Lakes—Bunker Hill Community Unit School District 8 PK–12 · Southwestern Community Unit School District 9 PK–12

Every school in Royal Lakes

4 schools. Each public school’s letter compares its own 2020–21 reading and math results with Illinois’s other public schools (the newest school-level results we have).

Also serving Royal Lakesin other towns
Wolf Ridge Education Center
Elementary · Grades PK–8 · Bunker Hill
C
407 students15:1Rate it →
Brighton North Primary School
Elementary · Grades PK–2 · Brighton
293 students16:1Rate it →
Southwestern High School
High · Grades 9–12 · Piasa
B−
370 students12:1Rate it →
Bunker Hill High School
High · Grades 9–12 · Bunker Hill
C+
166 students10:1Rate it →

Questions about Royal Lakes’s schools

Are Royal Lakes’s schools good?

There’s no Schools grade for Royal Lakes. Bunker Hill Community Unit School District 8 and Southwestern Community Unit School District 9 have no state test or graduation results we can use, so there is no Schools grade for Royal Lakes. Each school below is shown with its own results. School by school, 1 of its 3 district schools with test results score above the middle of Illinois’s public schools on their 2020–21 results.

What school district is Royal Lakes in?

Bunker Hill Community Unit School District 8 and Southwestern Community Unit School District 9.

Where do Royal Lakes kids go to high school?

One of two high schools, depending on your address: Southwestern High School and Bunker Hill High School.

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What Royal Lakes families are saying about school.

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School data: state test results (2020–21, with participation) and four-year graduation rates (class of 2023) reported to the U.S. Department of Education (EDFacts via ED Data Express); each school’s own letter uses its 2020–21 results (EDFacts via the Urban Institute); schools and enrollment from NCES (2024–25; private schools 2023–24); spending from the Census Bureau’s school finance survey (FY2024). Stars are from neighbors.