Best Public Schools in Zip Code 60071

Zip code 60071 has three public schools serving kindergarten through grade 12: Richmond Grade School (407 students, K–5), Nippersink Middle School (377 students, grades 6–8), and Richmond-Burton High School (521 students, grades 9–12). Their latest results show generally positive performance: all three are above state results on their broad reported proficiency measures, and chronic absenteeism is below the state rate at each school. The clearest area-wide finding is that every school combines above-state results on its broad measures with lower chronic absenteeism than the state.

Nippersink Middle stands out in English language arts: 68% of students are proficient across grades, 12 percentage points above the state; its math result is 42%, 2 points above. Richmond-Burton High has the largest high-school advantage in science, with 66% proficient on the 11th-grade ACT, 18 points above the state; it is also 10 points above state in English and 8 in math. Richmond Grade is above state overall in both subjects, but its math results vary sharply by grade: third grade is 14 points above state, while fourth and fifth grades are each 4 points below. All three schools’ chronic absenteeism is lower than the state’s 24%: 9% at Richmond Grade and Nippersink, and 14% at Richmond-Burton.

Recent results show some changes rather than a single direction. Richmond Grade’s English advantage over state narrowed from 13 points in 2024–2025 to 6 in 2025–2026; Nippersink’s narrowed from 14 to 12. At Richmond-Burton, 10th-grade PreACT results fell by 12 points in English, 9 in math, and 15 in science, while 11th-grade ACT English and science improved by 4 and 5 points, respectively, and math declined by 2. SchoolDigger ranks Richmond-Burton at the 72nd percentile statewide, Nippersink at the 64th, and Richmond Grade at the 57th. Student-teacher ratios are close, from 12.1 to 13.0. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures are 23% at Richmond Grade and 25% at Nippersink in 2024–2025; Richmond-Burton’s 9% figure is from 2021–2022, so it is not a same-year comparison.