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Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 60090

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At a glance

Schools

1,243

Students

Top rankedJack London Middle School723^rd of 1,126 Illinois middle schools

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Biggest riser

Oliver W Holmes Middle School up 143 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

ZIP code 60090 has two middle schools, both serving grades 6–8 in Wheeling CCSD 21: Jack London Middle School and Oliver W Holmes Middle School. They have similar enrollments, with 628 students at Jack London and 615 at Holmes. The most important difference for families is that Jack London scored higher than Holmes in every reported subject in both years.

Jack London stands out as the stronger performer, while Holmes had the lower scores in each subject. In 2025–2026, Jack scored 54% in all-grade ELA, 32% in math and 50% in eighth-grade science, compared with Holmes’s 41%, 22% and 32%. The school-to-school gaps were 13 points in ELA, 10 in math and 18 in science. Jack’s eighth-grade ELA was 1 point above the state result, while Holmes was 19 points below; both schools were below the state in all-grade math and eighth-grade science. SchoolDigger ranked Jack at the 36th statewide percentile with 2 stars and Holmes at the 13th percentile with 1 star in 2025–2026.

Both schools improved their scores from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and Holmes made the larger gains: 14 points in ELA, 8 in math and 4 in science, versus Jack’s gains of 8, 2 and 2 points. Even so, Jack remained ahead in every latest result. SchoolDigger’s rankings have declined over three years: Jack fell from the 54th to the 36th percentile, and Holmes from the 23rd to the 13th. Other measures provide context, not an explanation for the score differences: in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students were 64% at Jack and 71% at Holmes, and student–teacher ratios were 9.6 and 10.9, respectively. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 17% at Jack and 21% at Holmes; both rates were below the state’s 24%.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				ISA Science (2026)	IAR English Language Arts (2026)				IAR Mathematics (2026)				Vaccination (2025-26)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2026)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	ISA Science 8th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 6th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 7th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 8th Grade	IAR English Language Arts All Grades	IAR Mathematics 6th Grade	IAR Mathematics 7th Grade	IAR Mathematics 8th Grade	IAR Mathematics All Grades	Vaccination: Measles protection (all grades)	Vaccination: Exemption rate	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Jack London Middle School	Public	6-8	1001 W Dundee Rd	Wheeling	60090	Cook County	Wheeling CCSD 21	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(847) 520-2745	628	65	9.6	63.5%	188 (29.9%)	15 (2.4%)	345 (54.9%)	56 (8.9%)	2 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	22 (3.5%)	35.1	723^rd of 1126 public middle schools	35.8%		48.2	649^th of 1368 public middle schools	52.6%	74	50.0	50.2	45.6	64.5	53.9	30.8	32.8	33.3	32.3	98.9%		$25,950	$601	$25,349
Oliver W Holmes Middle School	Public	6-8	221 S Wolf Rd	Wheeling	60090	Cook County	Wheeling CCSD 21	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(847) 520-2790	615	56	10.9	71.2%	84 (13.7%)	29 (4.7%)	447 (72.7%)	37 (6.0%)	5 (0.8%)	0 (0.0%)	13 (2.1%)	14.9	978^th of 1126 public middle schools	13.1%		19.7	1121^st of 1368 public middle schools	18.1%	143	31.8	39.4	39.1	44.0	40.8	17.8	25.7	22.3	22.0	99.1%		$24,222	$617	$23,605

Cities Near Zip Code 60090

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Wheeling	0.3 mi	8	652^nd
Buffalo Grove	1.63 mi	12	114^th
Arlington Heights	1.73 mi	23	100^th
Prospect Heights	1.81 mi	6	87^th
Northbrook	2.77 mi	13	11^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education.

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