Best Middle Schools in Addison, IL

Addison has one middle school, Indian Trail Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 1,111 students. In 2025–26, its ELA proficiency was 48%, compared with 56% statewide, while math proficiency was 26%, compared with 40% statewide. The school’s clearest challenge is math: its all-grades result was 14 points below the state.

There are no other Addison middle schools in this list, so Indian Trail is both the highest- and lowest-ranked school locally by default, rather than a clear standout against nearby peers. ELA was closer to the state benchmark than math and was 2 points above Addison School District 4; math was 5 points below the district. Results also varied by grade: grade 6 math was 21%, 15 points below the state, while grade 8 ELA was 48%, 15 points below the state. Grade 7 ELA had the smallest listed grade-level gap, at 7 points below the state.

Results improved over time in ELA and science, but math did not catch up with the state. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA rose 8 points at the school while the state rose 3, narrowing the gap from 13 to 8 points; eighth-grade science rose 7 points and its state gap narrowed from 12 to 11 points. Math rose 1 point, but its gap widened from 13 to 14 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school 859 of 1,126 in 2025–26, at the 24th percentile with one star; its percentile ranking was 42nd in 2023–24 and 39th in 2024–25. As context, the school had a 12.3 student-teacher ratio and 72% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. Chronic absenteeism was 24% in 2025–26, equal to the state rate and 4 points above the district.