Summary:
Winnebago, Illinois, has one listed middle school, Winnebago Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 296 students. With no other middle schools in the list, families can compare its results with district and state figures, but not with another local school. The clearest takeaway is that the school’s all-grades English language arts results are well above the state, while its overall math results are essentially at the state level.
Winnebago Middle School is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this one-school list, a distinction that does not represent a meaningful local ranking. In 2025–26, 67% of students met the ELA standard, 10 percentage points above Illinois and 10 points above the district. Eighth-grade science was another strength: 61% met the standard, 9 points above the state. Math results were more mixed: 40% met the standard overall, essentially matching the state, but grade 8 was 3 points below it. Grades 6 and 7 math were respectively 8 and 6 points above the state, making eighth-grade math the clearest subject-and-grade concern.
Results improved from the prior year across all three reported measures: all-grades ELA rose 18 points, math rose 5, and eighth-grade science rose 10. ELA moved from 4 points below the state to 10 points above; the science lead widened from 6 to 9 points. SchoolDigger gives the school three stars and ranks it 446th of 1,126 statewide, at the 60th percentile; its percentile was 65 in 2023–24, fell to 59, then edged up to 60. Other context includes 16% chronic absenteeism in 2025–26, below the state’s 24% but above the district’s 11%; a 10.8 student–teacher ratio and $16,741 per student in spending in 2024–25; and 31% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. These figures offer context, but the one-school list does not show how such measures relate to results at comparable schools.
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