Summary:
The middle-school list for Skokie School District 68 contains one school, Old Orchard Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 711 students in Skokie. The latest results show a clear contrast by subject: in 2025–2026, the school was above Illinois in mathematics and eighth-grade science, but below the state in ELA, especially in eighth grade. The most important finding is that eighth graders scored 13 points below the state in ELA while scoring 14 points above it in math and 12 points above it in science.
There is no school-to-school leader or trailing school in this one-school list; the standout is the difference between subjects at Old Orchard. All-grades math proficiency was 49%, compared with 40% statewide, and eighth-grade science was 64%, compared with 52%. In contrast, all-grades ELA was 54% versus 56% statewide, and eighth-grade ELA was 50% versus 63%. Chronic absenteeism was 19% at the school, 5 points below Illinois’ 24% rate, though that lower rate coexists with the recent ELA decline.
Results moved in different directions from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA fell 9 points, from 63% to 54%, while the state rose 3 points; math increased 8 points, from 41% to 49%, and science rose 16 points, from 49% to 64%. SchoolDigger’s rating also shifted: Old Orchard went from the 56th percentile and 3 stars to the 73rd percentile and 4 stars, then to the 58th percentile and 3 stars. For context, its student–teacher ratio was 12.9:1 in 2024–2025, and 58% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year; these figures describe the school but do not establish what accounts for its results.
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