Summary:
Salem School District 111 has two listed schools serving grades K–8: Hawthorn Elementary School serves K–3, and Franklin Park Middle School serves grades 4–8. In 2025–2026, both were above the state in all-grades ELA: Hawthorn had 59% proficiency, compared with 56% statewide, and Franklin Park had 70%. The clearest takeaway is that the schools have different academic strengths: Franklin Park leads in ELA, while Hawthorn leads in mathematics.
Franklin Park stands out for ELA, at 14 percentage points above the state; Hawthorn was 3 points above. In mathematics, Hawthorn’s 50% was 10 points above the state, while Franklin Park’s 27% was 12 points below. Franklin Park’s grade 6 math result was particularly low at 16%, versus 36% statewide. Its science results were above the state in both reported grades: by 3 points in grade 5 and 10 points in grade 8. The schools serve different grade spans, so their all-grades results are useful summaries but not direct same-grade comparisons.
Results changed differently by subject: Hawthorn’s ELA rose 12 percentage points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and Franklin Park’s increased 4 points, while math fell 4 points at Hawthorn and 1 point at Franklin Park as the state math result rose 1 point. SchoolDigger lists Franklin Park at the 77th percentile in 2023–2024 and the 61st percentile in 2025–2026; its ELA proficiency rose over the two available test-score years, so the ranking and proficiency measure different things. In 2024–2025, Franklin Park had a lower student-teacher ratio (12.2 versus 14.0) and a lower share of students eligible for free/reduced lunch (55% versus 63%). These are contextual observations, not explanations for achievement differences.
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