Schools in Zip Code 60044

ZIP code 60044 has two schools in Lake Bluff Education Service District 65: Lake Bluff Elementary School, serving pre-K through grade 5, and Lake Bluff Middle School, serving grades 6–8. Both schools’ 2025–2026 results are above state proficiency rates in every listed subject and grade, and both report much lower chronic absenteeism than the state: 5% at the elementary school and 8% at the middle school, compared with 24% statewide. The clearest area-wide takeaway is that both schools perform above state benchmarks across their tested grades.

The schools stand out in different subjects: the middle school leads on all-grades ELA, with 84% proficient versus 78% at the elementary school and 56% statewide; the elementary school leads on all-grades mathematics, with 68% versus 63% at the middle school and 40% statewide. Their state advantages are 27 and 22 points in ELA, respectively, and 28 and 23 points in mathematics. By grade, the largest listed advantage is the middle school’s grade 7 mathematics result, 75% versus 40% statewide, a 35-point gap; the smallest is grade 6 mathematics, still 18 points above state. Elementary grade 5 science is 72% proficient, 24 points above state, while middle grade 8 science is 69%, 17 points above state. Because the schools serve different grades, these are not like-grade comparisons.

Results rose in ELA and mathematics at both schools from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, but the elementary school gained ground relative to the state while the middle school’s advantages narrowed slightly. Elementary all-grades ELA rose 7 points and mathematics 7; middle ELA rose 2 points and mathematics 1. Science moved in opposite directions: elementary grade 5 rose 19 points, while middle grade 8 fell 3. SchoolDigger gives the elementary school a 202nd-place ranking among 1,737 schools (88th percentile, 4 stars) and the middle school 122nd among 1,126 (89th percentile, 4 stars). The elementary student-teacher ratio is 11, compared with 9.9 at the middle school. Both report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2021–2022: 11% at the elementary school and 17% at the middle school; these are context, not an explanation of test results.