Summary:
ZIP code 60076 has eight listed schools—six elementary and two middle schools, with no high schools—and seven have 2025–26 ELA and math results. Their simple average is 61% in ELA, compared with 56% statewide, and 46% in math, compared with 40% statewide. The most important takeaway is that results vary widely from school to school: all-grades ELA scores span 54 percentage points, from 84% to 31%.
Oliver McCracken Middle School leads in ELA at 84%, 28 percentage points above the state; East Prairie Elementary School is close behind at 81%, 25 points above. East Prairie leads in math at 55%, 15 points above the state, followed by Highland Elementary School at 54%. At the other end, Dr Bessie Rhodes School Global Studies has the lowest all-grades results: 31% in ELA and 23% in math, respectively 26 and 17 points below the state. Grade-level results add detail: Highland’s grade 5 math score is 60%, 24 points above the state.
Recent changes are mixed: East Prairie and McCracken improved in both subjects from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while Highland fell 7 points in ELA and 5 in math; Old Orchard Junior High School’s ELA fell 9 points even as its math rose 8. SchoolDigger’s rankings also diverge: McCracken rose from the 80th to the 83rd percentile from 2023–24 to 2025–26, while Devonshire Elementary School fell from the 59th to the 38th. For context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible figures ranged from 26% at Elizabeth Meyer School to 70% at Rhodes; these figures describe student context, not a cause of results. Ratios also don’t tell the whole story: Rhodes had 9.3 students per teacher, the lowest reported ratio, yet the lowest all-grades scores, while Devonshire had the highest ratio at 13.0 and the only chronic absenteeism rate above the state’s in 2025–26 (25% versus 24%).
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