Summary:
Zip code 60035 has two middle schools, both serving grades 6–8 in North Shore School District 112, with 1,203 students combined. In 2025–2026, both schools were above state proficiency rates in all-grades ELA and math and grade 8 science. The biggest difference for families comparing them is in math, where Edgewood Middle School led Northwood Middle School by 16 percentage points.
Edgewood stands out overall, leading in all-grades ELA (83% versus 76%), math (70% versus 55%), and grade 8 science (75% versus 61%). Its largest advantage is in math; the 16-point overall gap includes a particularly wide 22-point lead in grade 7. Northwood’s clearest relative strength is grade 8 ELA, where it narrowly leads, 79.1% to 78.6%. Both schools outperform the state in every reported comparison, although Northwood is below the district results in the three all-school or grade 8 comparisons described.
Results rose at both schools in ELA and math from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026; in science, Edgewood rose 3 points while Northwood was nearly unchanged, up 0.1 point. The schools’ average lead over the state widened in math, but narrowed in ELA and science. SchoolDigger rates Edgewood 5 stars, ranked 81st of 1,126 schools and in the 93rd percentile; Northwood has 4 stars, ranks 245th, and is in the 78th percentile. Their student–teacher ratios are fairly close: 11:1 at Edgewood and 10.5:1 at Northwood. The reported low-income measures are also different-year figures: free/reduced lunch eligible was 12% at Edgewood in 2021–2022 and 37% at Northwood in 2024–2025, so they are not a like-for-like comparison.
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