Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a multi-part series on the 2011 Illinois Report Card.

Area schools have received their report cards, and the results showed how our students are doing in math, reading, science and writing.

But the report cards contain more information than how the students are doing. The 2012 Illinois School Report Cards also provide information on area classrooms.
School report cards show the results of how students are performing on standardized tests, but those numbers don’t take into account how classrooms differ from each other, how some classrooms are crowded while others have almost too much space.