Summary:
Zip code 60015 has eight schools—five elementary, two middle and one high school—serving students from elementary through high school; together, they enroll 4,316 students. The area’s latest results show strong performance compared with state figures, though scores vary by school and grade. Most notably, every school’s reported 2025–2026 all-grades result is above its corresponding state figure.
Bannockburn School leads the K–8 schools, with 94% in ELA and 82% in math—37 and 42 points above the state, respectively. Among the four K–5-only schools, South Park Elementary School leads at 89% ELA and 80% math, ahead of the next-highest school by 10 and 13 points. Charles J Caruso Middle School leads the middle schools at 91% ELA and 77% math, 5 points ahead of Alan B Shepard Middle School in each subject. At the lower end of the K–5 group, Kipling Elementary School has the lowest ELA result, 79%, while Wilmot Elementary School has the lowest math result, 68%. Fifth-grade science also differs: Walden Elementary School scores 78%, 20 points above Kipling. Deerfield High School, the only high school listed, is 35 points above the state in ACT ELA and 44 points above in math.
Recent averages moved in different directions: ELA rose by 2 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while math fell by 2 points; in both subjects, the average lead over the state narrowed. SchoolDigger ranks Caruso and Deerfield High in the 98th percentile statewide and Bannockburn in the 97th; Kipling and Wilmot rank in the 88th and 89th percentiles. As context, Bannockburn had 20% free/reduced lunch eligible in school year 2021–2022, compared with 1% to 3% at the other schools in that same measure and year, while also posting the area’s strongest K–8 results. These figures describe contrasts, not causes.
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