Summary:
The 60022 middle-school list contains one school, Central School, serving grades 5–8 with 561 students in Glencoe School District 35. The most important finding is that its 2025–2026 proficiency rates were well above Illinois averages in both subjects: 88% in ELA versus 56% statewide, and 81% in math versus 40% statewide.
Because it is the only school listed, Central School is both the area’s only standout and its only school to compare; there is no separate school-level leader or trailer. Its advantage over Illinois was 31 percentage points in ELA and 42 points in math, with math showing the larger relative strength. Results were above state figures in every reported grade: grade 7 math was 89%, 50 points above the state, while grade 8 ELA was 82%, 19 points above the state—the smallest ELA advantage across the four grades. SchoolDigger rated the school 5 stars and ranked it 46th of 1,126 Illinois schools, in the 96th percentile, in 2025–2026.
Scores improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, although the school did not pull farther ahead overall: ELA rose 2 points at Central School and 3 statewide, narrowing its advantage from 33 to 31 points; math rose about 1 point at both, leaving its advantage nearly unchanged at about 42 points. Grade 5 and grade 8 science also improved, but their state comparisons narrowed. SchoolDigger’s rank moved from 27th in 2023–2024 to 46th in 2025–2026, while its rating remained 5 stars. Other context includes a 9.5:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and about 1% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2021–2022. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 11% at the school, compared with 9% in the district and 24% statewide. With only one school in the list, these figures cannot show how it compares with other local schools.
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