Best Middle Schools in Mazon, IL

Mazon has one listed middle school, Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle School, serving grades 5–8 and enrolling 144 students. Its all-grades 2025–26 ELA proficiency was 50%, compared with 56% statewide; math proficiency was 21%, compared with 40% statewide. The most important finding is that math is the school’s clearest academic concern, trailing the state by 19 percentage points.

There is no school-to-school leader or trailing school because this is the only school listed. The school’s strongest state comparisons are in science: fifth-grade proficiency was 62% versus 48% statewide, and eighth-grade proficiency was 56% versus 52%. ELA results varied by grade: fifth grade reached 58%, 3 points above the state, while seventh grade was 39%, 18 points below. All-grades math was also below the district’s 34% result, by 13 points. These contrasts show why the all-grades averages do not tell the whole story.

Over time, ELA proficiency rose from 49% in 2024–25 to 50% in 2025–26, but the state’s increase was larger, so the school’s ELA gap widened from 4 to 6 points; math slipped slightly, and its state gap widened from 17 to 19 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide standing also declined, from the 53rd percentile and 3 stars in 2023–24 to the 34th percentile and 2 stars in 2025–26. As context, the school’s student–teacher ratio was 12.7:1 and 42% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. Chronic absenteeism was 16% in 2025–26, below the state’s 24% but above the district’s 13%.