Summary:
The middle-school list for Country Club Hills School District 160 includes one school: Southwood Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 283 students. In 2025–2026, 26% of Southwood students were proficient in ELA, compared with 56% statewide; in math, 11% were proficient, compared with 40% statewide. Eighth-grade science proficiency was 26%, versus 52% statewide. The most important finding is that Southwood’s reported results are substantially below state results in every reported subject-and-grade comparison.
Southwood is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this list because it is the only school, so there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison. Its results vary by subject: the all-grades gap to the state was 30 percentage points in ELA and 28 points in math, while eighth-grade science was 26 points below. ELA’s largest grade-specific gap was in grade 6, at 35 points below the state; the reported grade 7 math gap was narrower, at 21 points. SchoolDigger ranked Southwood 1,095 of 1,126 schools statewide in 2025–2026, at the 3rd percentile with 0 stars, compared with the 14th percentile and 1 star in 2024–2025. With just one school in the list, it cannot show how Southwood compares with local peer schools.
Results changed unevenly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose from 25.7% to 26.4%, a gain of 1 percentage point, but the state improved faster and the ELA gap widened by 3 points. Math fell by 1 point as the state gained 1 point, widening that gap by 2 points. Eighth-grade science improved by 7 points, and its gap to the state narrowed slightly, from 25.9 to 25.6 points. Chronic absenteeism was 34% at Southwood, below the district’s 37% but above the state’s 24%. As context, 70% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 15.7 in that school year; these figures describe the school but do not explain its results.
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