Summary:
The middle-school list for Flossmoor School District 161 contains one school, Parker Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 with 822 students. Its latest test results are from 2025–2026. Since there are no other middle schools in the list, families cannot compare Parker with local peers. The clearest concern is mathematics: 27% of students were proficient, 12 percentage points below the state’s 40%, and Parker was below the state in every tested grade.
Parker is the list’s only, and therefore highest- and lowest-ranked, school by default; that is not a meaningful local ranking. Against the state, its strongest result was grade 8 ELA, where 72% were proficient compared with 63% statewide, a gap of 9 points. Its all-grades ELA result was also above the state: 60% versus 56%, or 4 points higher. However, grades 6 and 7 ELA were below state results, and mathematics fell short in grades 6, 7, and 8 by about 9–10 points per grade. Grade 8 science was another positive result at 56%, 4 points above the state.
Results improved in some areas, but the pattern is mixed. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grades ELA rose from 58% to 60%, while its state advantage narrowed from 5 points to 4. Mathematics increased from 26.5% to 27.2%, but its gap to the state widened from 12.0 to 12.4 points. Grade 8 science rose from 42% to 56%, moving from 4 points below the state to 4 points above it. SchoolDigger’s rating fell from the 57th percentile and 3 stars in 2024–2025 to the 41st percentile and 2 stars in 2025–2026, despite the increases in both all-grades test scores. Other context includes a 12.4 student–teacher ratio and 54% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. These figures describe one school and do not establish why its results differ from state results.
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