Summary:
The middle-school list for Mount Prospect School District 57 contains one school, Lincoln Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 784 students. With only one school, families do not have a meaningful school-to-school comparison; the clearest benchmark is Illinois statewide performance. The most important finding is that Lincoln’s strongest result is ELA: in 2025–2026, 86% of students were proficient, compared with 56% statewide—a 29-point lead.
Lincoln is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this one-school list, but its results exceed state levels in all three reported subject areas. In 2025–2026, math proficiency was 58%, versus 40% statewide, an 18-point advantage; grade 8 science was 63%, versus 52%, an 11-point advantage. The science result is for grade 8, not all grades. ELA and math results were above state levels in grades 6, 7, and 8. SchoolDigger gives Lincoln 4 stars and ranks it 149th of 1,126 Illinois schools, in the 87th percentile.
Results changed unevenly over the two reported years. ELA proficiency rose from 61% in 2024–2025 to 86% in 2025–2026, a 25-point gain, while the state result increased by 3 points; Lincoln’s lead widened from 7 points to 29. Math rose by 2 points, from 56% to 58%, and its state lead widened by 1 point. Grade 8 science fell by 2 points, from 65% to 63%, while the state rose by 7 points, narrowing Lincoln’s lead by 9 points. Other context includes a student-teacher ratio of 13.5 in 2024–2025, chronic absenteeism of 12% in 2025–2026 versus 10% districtwide and 24% statewide, and 5% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2021–2022.
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