Summary:
ZIP code 60002 has one listed middle school, Antioch Upper Grade School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 875 students. With no other listed school, there is no local top-to-bottom comparison; the most important finding is that in 2025–26 the school was above the state in all three reported subject measures, with its largest advantage in eighth-grade science: 59% proficient versus 52% statewide, a 7-point lead.
Antioch Upper Grade School’s strongest comparison with the state was eighth-grade math, where 43% were proficient versus 35% statewide, 9 points higher. Eighth-grade science was also notably above the state, while all-grades ELA was 59% versus 56% (3 points higher) and all-grades math was 41% versus 40% (1 point higher). The clearest grade-level concern was seventh-grade ELA: 53% were proficient, 5 points below the state’s 58%. Seventh-grade math was also slightly below the state, by less than a point; grades 6 and 8 were above the state in ELA, and grades 6 and 8 were above it in math.
Results shifted in different directions from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA fell from 60% to 59%, narrowing the school’s state advantage from 7 points to 3, while math rose from 38% to 41%, moving from 1 point below the state to 1 point above. Eighth-grade science increased from 47% to 59%, and its lead over the state grew from 1 point to 7. SchoolDigger’s ranking fell from the 74th percentile in 2023–24 to the 53rd in 2025–26; its ratings were 4, 3, and 3 stars across those years, though the ranking pools changed. As context, the school’s 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 13:1 and 31% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. In 2025–26, chronic absenteeism was 21%, below the state’s 24% but above the district’s 19%.
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