Maercker School District 60

Maercker School District 60 has three schools serving preschool through grade 8: Holmes Elementary School for PK–2, Maercker Elementary School for grades 3–5, and Westview Hills Middle School for grades 6–8. Enrollment is similar, from 455 to 519 students. Holmes has no test results listed in this data; the available results are for the other two schools. The clearest overall standout is Westview, which was substantially above state results in every reported grade for both ELA and math in 2025–26.

Westview Hills Middle School led the available results: 76% of students were proficient in ELA, 19 points above the state, and 65% in math, 25 points above. Its grade-level results were above state rates by 13–19 points in ELA and 23–32 points in math. Maercker Elementary School was stronger in math than ELA overall: math proficiency was 51%, 12 points above the state, while ELA was 56.1% compared with 56.3% statewide. Its grade 5 results were a bright spot, exceeding state rates by 10 points in ELA and 15 in math. In science, both schools were above their grade-specific state benchmarks: Maercker by 7 points in grade 5 and Westview by 10 in grade 8.

Recent changes were mixed rather than uniform. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, Westview’s ELA rose 7 points and grade 8 science rose 17, while Maercker’s math fell 4 points and grade 5 science fell 4. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking also diverged: Maercker went from the 82nd percentile in 2023–24 to the 56th in 2025–26, while Westview rose from the 82nd to the 85th. Context figures are similar across schools: student-teacher ratios range from 13.5 to 13.9, and free/reduced lunch eligible shares in 2024–25 ranged from 45% at Westview to 50% at Maercker, with Holmes at 49%. Chronic absenteeism was 10%–12% at the schools, compared with 24% statewide. These measures describe school context, not the cause of test results.