Summary:
Zip code 60022 has two schools in Glencoe School District 35: South Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 2, and West School, serving grades 3–4. South has no test scores in the supplied data, so achievement comparisons are available only for West. West’s 2025–2026 proficiency was well above state results in both subjects: 86% in English language arts (ELA), 29 percentage points higher than the state, and 87% in math, 47 points higher.
West stands out in the available achievement and attendance figures, but the data do not support naming either school as the academic “bottom.” At West, grade 4 ELA proficiency was 95%, compared with 79% in grade 3—a 16-point difference—while math results were closer: 88% in grade 3 and 86% in grade 4. West also had lower chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026: 4%, versus 8% at South, a 4-point difference; both were below the state’s 24% rate. West’s ELA result was slightly below the district’s 87%, while its math result was above the district’s 83%.
West’s advantage over the state narrowed in ELA but stayed nearly level in math: its ELA gap went from 33 points in 2024–2025 to 29 points in 2025–2026, while its math gap remained about 47 points. SchoolDigger placed West in the 98th percentile in both of its latest reported years, after the 97th percentile in 2023–2024; the district is ranked 18th of 738 and rated five stars by SchoolDigger. West also has a lower student-teacher ratio than South, 12.7 to 14.1. As context, both schools reported about 1% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2021–2022 (1.1% at West and 0.8% at South); these figures do not explain school results.
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