Summary:
The middle-school list for River Forest School District 90 contains one school, Roosevelt School, serving grades 5–8 and 625 students in River Forest; most notably, it outperformed Illinois in every reported 2025–26 subject and grade, with all-grade results 35 points above the state in ELA and 43 points above in math.
Roosevelt School is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in this list, since it is the only one. Its all-grade results were 91% in ELA and 82% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide. It also exceeded Illinois in grade 5 and grade 8 science by 31 and 30 points, respectively. The school’s ELA result matched the district’s, while its math result was 2 points lower: 82% compared with 84%.
Results improved year over year: ELA rose from 85% in 2024–25 to 91% in 2025–26, and math from 73% to 82%; the school’s advantage over the state widened by 3 points in ELA and 8 points in math. Science also rose in grades 5 and 8, by 15 and 10 points. Grade 6 is the school’s relative dip, with the lowest ELA and math results, though both remained well above state results. SchoolDigger ranks the district 6th of 738 with five stars, and ranks Roosevelt 24th of 1,126 schools, up from 51st the previous year. Context measures include a 10.3:1 student–teacher ratio in 2024–25, 6% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2021–22, and 16% chronic absenteeism in 2025–26—below the state’s 24% but above the district’s 10%. Because this list has only one school, it cannot show how Roosevelt compares with other nearby schools or explain what accounts for its results.
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