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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 60004

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At a glance

Schools

6,133

Students

Districts

5-star schools

Top rankedJohn Hersey High School17^th of 620 Illinois high schools

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Biggest riser

J W Riley Elementary School up 313 spots statewide this year

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Smallest classes

Greenbrier Elementary School 8.8 students per teacher

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Summary:

ZIP code 60004 has nine schools: seven elementary schools serving pre-K or kindergarten through grade 5, one middle school serving grades 6–8, and one high school serving grades 9–12. Five elementary schools are in Arlington Heights School District 25 and two are in Wheeling CCSD 21. The clearest overall strength is elementary proficiency: the seven-school average is 73% in ELA and 65% in math, respectively 17 and 25 percentage points above state rates.

Patton Elementary School leads the elementary schools, with 86% proficient in ELA and 80% in math; those results are 15 and 17 points above the averages of the other six schools. At the other end, Edgar A Poe Elementary School has the lowest all-grades results, at 51% in ELA and 50% in math. Its ELA is 5 points below the state rate, while its math is 11 points above. The older grades also show strong results: Thomas Middle School is 20 points above the state in ELA and 19 in math; John Hersey High School is 33 points above in grade-11 ACT ELA, 37 in math and 35 in science.

Recent elementary trends favor ELA and science, while math has slipped: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the seven-school average rose 6 points in ELA and 7 in grade-5 science, but fell 2 points in math. SchoolDigger rankings offer another perspective: Patton rose from the 93rd to the 96th percentile, and J W Riley Elementary School from the 66th to the 82nd; Windsor Elementary School and Poe moved down. Riley and Poe have similar enrollment, but Riley’s 2025–2026 results exceed Poe’s by 18 points in ELA and 6 in math. For context, their free/reduced lunch eligible shares in 2024–2025 were 35% at Riley and 51% at Poe; these figures describe the schools but do not explain the score differences.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				PreACT Secure English Language Arts (2026)		PreACT Secure Mathematics (2026)		PreACT Secure Science (2026)		ACT English Language Arts (2026)	ACT Mathematics (2026)	ACT Science (2026)	ISA Science (2026)		IAR English Language Arts (2026)							IAR Mathematics (2026)							Vaccination (2025-26)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2026)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	PreACT Secure English Language Arts 9th Grade	PreACT Secure English Language Arts 10th Grade	PreACT Secure Mathematics 9th Grade	PreACT Secure Mathematics 10th Grade	PreACT Secure Science 9th Grade	PreACT Secure Science 10th Grade	ACT English Language Arts 11th Grade	ACT Mathematics 11th Grade	ACT Science 11th Grade	ISA Science 5th Grade	ISA Science 8th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 3rd Grade	IAR English Language Arts 4th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 5th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 6th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 7th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 8th Grade	IAR English Language Arts All Grades	IAR Mathematics 3rd Grade	IAR Mathematics 4th Grade	IAR Mathematics 5th Grade	IAR Mathematics 6th Grade	IAR Mathematics 7th Grade	IAR Mathematics 8th Grade	IAR Mathematics All Grades	Vaccination: Measles protection (all grades)	Vaccination: Exemption rate	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Greenbrier Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	2330 N Verde Dr	Arlington Heights	60004	Cook County	Arlington Heights School District 25	No	(n/a)	No	No	(847) 398-4272	280	32	8.8	23.6%	182 (65.0%)	5 (1.8%)	17 (6.1%)	74 (26.4%)	1 (0.4%)	1 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	87.5	168^th of 1737 public elementary schools	90.3%		89.7	184^th of 2056 public elementary schools	91.1%	16										71.7		68.8	80.4	84.8				79.1	81.3	64.7	69.6				70.5	95%		$23,111	$785	$22,326
Ivy Hill Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	2211 N Burke Dr	Arlington Heights	60004	Cook County	Arlington Heights School District 25	No	(n/a)	No	No	(847) 398-4275	593	41	14.4	24.1%	279 (47.0%)	9 (1.5%)	86 (14.5%)	214 (36.1%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (0.3%)	3 (0.5%)	84.3	222^nd of 1737 public elementary schools	87.2%		89.8	180^th of 2056 public elementary schools	91.2%	42										72.2		74.4	76.3	77.2				75.9	67.8	66.3	64.6				66.3	96.3%		$15,928	$636	$15,292
Olive-Mary Stitt School	Public	K-5	303 E Olive St	Arlington Heights	60004	Cook County	Arlington Heights School District 25	No	(n/a)	No	No	(847) 398-4282	671	48	14.0	6.4%	536 (79.9%)	16 (2.4%)	60 (8.9%)	58 (8.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.1%)	86.9	178^th of 1737 public elementary schools	89.8%		91.3	151^st of 2056 public elementary schools	92.7%	27										81.9		75.0	87.5	77.4				79.6	71.0	61.5	66.1				66.4	97.6%		$14,478	$509	$13,968
Patton Elementary School	Public	K-5	1616 N Patton Ave	Arlington Heights	60004	Cook County	Arlington Heights School District 25	No	(n/a)	No	No	(847) 398-4288	399	34	11.7	8.8%	329 (82.5%)	2 (0.5%)	36 (9.0%)	29 (7.3%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (0.5%)	1 (0.3%)	94.1	67^th of 1737 public elementary schools	96.1%		93.6	100^th of 2056 public elementary schools	95.1%	33										77.8		82.3	87.5	86.4				85.7	85.5	75.3	80.2				79.9	96.5%		$17,106	$478	$16,628
Windsor Elementary School	Public	K-5	1315 E Miner St	Arlington Heights	60004	Cook County	Arlington Heights School District 25	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(847) 398-4297	490	48	10.2	16.7%	374 (76.3%)	11 (2.2%)	60 (12.2%)	43 (8.8%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (0.4%)	80.2	296^th of 1737 public elementary schools	83.0%		87.3	240^th of 2056 public elementary schools	88.3%	56										75.0		69.2	69.6	72.9				70.4	69.2	72.0	52.9				65.6	97.1%		$19,822	$524	$19,298
Thomas Middle School	Public	6-8	1430 N Belmont Ave	Arlington Heights	60004	Cook County	Arlington Heights School District 25	No	(n/a)	No	No	(847) 398-4260	1,024	77	13.2	16.0%	722 (70.5%)	16 (1.6%)	94 (9.2%)	174 (17.0%)	2 (0.2%)	10 (1.0%)	6 (0.6%)	81.5	162^nd of 1126 public middle schools	85.6%		91.8	93^rd of 1368 public middle schools	93.2%	69											79.2				75.2	76.4	77.7	76.5				64.1	67.4	46.3	58.7	97.5%		$17,816	$547	$17,269
John Hersey High School	Public	9-12	1900 E Thomas St	Arlington Heights	60004	Cook County	Township HSD 214	No	(n/a)	No	No	(847) 718-4800	2,040	124	16.5	—	1,376 (67.5%)	31 (1.5%)	284 (13.9%)	261 (12.8%)	3 (0.1%)	2 (0.1%)	83 (4.1%)	97.7	17^th of 620 public high schools	97.3%		97.6	17^th of 698 public high schools	97.6%		89.7	88.0	75.3	72.0	76.3	78.1	82.4	77.1	83.2																	98%		$25,789	$816	$24,974
J W Riley Elementary School	Public	K-5	1209 E Burr Oak Dr	Arlington Heights	60004	Cook County	Wheeling CCSD 21	No	(n/a)	No	No	(847) 670-3400	319	33	9.8	34.8%	205 (64.3%)	8 (2.5%)	47 (14.7%)	40 (12.5%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	19 (6.0%)	79.3	312^th of 1737 public elementary schools	82.0%		68.8	625^th of 2056 public elementary schools	69.6%	313										75.8		57.7	76.3	74.3				68.7	63.5	71.2					55.8	97.9%		$27,596	$603	$26,993
Edgar A Poe Elementary School	Public	K-5	2800 N Highland Ave	Arlington Heights	60004	Cook County	Wheeling CCSD 21	No	(n/a)	No	No	(847) 670-3200	317	34	9.3	50.5%	224 (70.7%)	1 (0.3%)	37 (11.7%)	29 (9.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	26 (8.2%)	47.2	887^th of 1737 public elementary schools	48.9%		49.8	1003^rd of 2056 public elementary schools	51.2%	116										50.0		31.1	64.8	53.8				51.0	50.0	59.3	41.5				50.3	93.7%		$20,835	$598	$20,237

Cities Near Zip Code 60004

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Arlington Heights	0.47 mi	23	100^th
Prospect Heights	0.85 mi	6	87^th
Palatine	1.88 mi	19	410^th
Wheeling	2.07 mi	8	652^nd
Buffalo Grove	2.25 mi	12	114^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education.

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