Summary:
Seven schools serve 3,162 students in ZIP code 60045: four elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school, covering grades from kindergarten through high school. Results are above state figures across the elementary and middle schools, but local elementary math scores vary the most, from about 62% to 86%.
Sheridan Elementary School leads grade 4, with 98% proficiency in ELA and 93% in math; Everett Elementary School leads grade 3 math at 87%. In all-grades elementary results, Sheridan has the highest ELA score at about 90%, while Everett has the highest math score at 86%. Rondout Elementary School is lowest in all-grades math at 62%, compared with 78% to 86% at the other elementary schools, yet its grade-8 results are the strongest reported locally: 100% in ELA, 83% in math and 92% in science. Among middle schools, Deer Path Middle School East has higher all-grades ELA, while Deer Path Middle School West has higher math. Lake Forest High School, the area’s only high school, is above state results in every reported ACT subject; grade-11 proficiency is 91% in ELA, 85% in math and 87% in science.
Recent changes are mixed: across six schools, average all-grades ELA rose from 82% to 84% between 2024–25 and 2025–26, while average math fell from 79% to 77%; state results rose 3 points in ELA and 1 point in math. SchoolDigger’s rankings were stable or improved from 2023–24 to 2025–26 for the schools with reported histories: for example, Cherokee moved from the 87th to the 92nd percentile, while Everett and Sheridan stayed at the 98th. SchoolDigger gives five stars to every listed school except Rondout, which has four. Class-size ratios and income measures do not neatly track scores: Rondout has the lowest reported ratio, 8.4, but the lowest all-grades elementary math result; its free/reduced lunch eligible share was 6% in 2021–22, compared with 1% at Everett. These are observations, not evidence that either measure explains test results.
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