Summary:
Zip code 60071 has one middle school, Nippersink Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 377 students. With no other middle schools in the list, families can compare its results with state and district figures, but not with nearby schools in this data set. The clearest strength is English language arts (ELA): in 2025–2026, 68% of students were proficient, 12 percentage points above the Illinois result.
Nippersink is above the state in all-grades ELA and math and in eighth-grade science, but ELA and science stand out most. Eighth-grade science proficiency was 62%, compared with 52% statewide, a gap of 11 points. Math was closer: 42% of students were proficient, 2 points above the state. The grade-level results show that the math advantage is not consistent: sixth and seventh graders were slightly below state results, while eighth graders were 13 points above. There is no local top or bottom school to name because Nippersink is the only school listed.
Results changed in different ways over the two reported years. Eighth-grade science rose from 47% in 2024–2025 to 62% in 2025–2026, while the state result rose from 45% to 52%; Nippersink’s lead grew from 2 points to 11. ELA stayed above the state, though its lead narrowed from 14 points to 12, and the math lead narrowed from 4 points to 2. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking also moved down, from 259th of 1,363 schools (81st percentile) in 2023–2024 to 410th of 1,126 (64th percentile) in 2025–2026; its rating fell from four stars to three. Chronic absenteeism was 9% in 2025–2026, 15 points below the state and nearly the same as the Nippersink School District 2 rate of 8.9%. As context, 25% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio was 12.5 that year. Since there is only one school in the list, area-wide differences between schools cannot be assessed.
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