Summary:
North Chicago has five schools serving 2,537 students: three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, with LEARN 10 Charter School serving kindergarten through eighth grade; all are in North Chicago School District 187. SchoolDigger gives the district a one-star rating. The most important finding is that LEARN stands out on reported IAR results, but every school with reported all-grades scores remains below state averages in both ELA and math.
LEARN has the highest reported 2025–2026 all-grades IAR scores: 49% in ELA and 22% in math, compared with 21% and 8% at A J Katzenmaier Academy, the lowest among schools with reported results. Even LEARN was 7 percentage points below the state in ELA and 17 points below in math. Grade-level results show where LEARN is strongest: its eighth-grade ELA score was 75%, versus 32% at Neal Math Science Academy and 63% statewide. Evelyn Alexander School cannot be placed in this current comparison because its 2025–2026 IAR results are suppressed.
Recent progress is strongest in ELA: the average for the three schools with results rose from 24% in 2024–2025 to 33% in 2025–2026, while their math average was essentially unchanged at 14%. LEARN’s ELA rose 15 points, but its math fell 3; at the high school, ACT results improved by 2 points in ELA and math and 4 in science, though scores remain about 31–33 points below state results. Attendance is another concern: chronic absenteeism was 41% at North Chicago Community High School, compared with 12% at LEARN and 24% statewide. In 2024–2025, four schools reported that all students receive free meals (Community Eligibility), while LEARN reported 69% free/reduced lunch eligible. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile moved from 29 to 33 for LEARN and from 10 to 3 for Neal between the two years; those rankings are separate from test-score changes.
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