Summary:
Zip code 60099 has three middle schools serving grades 6–8: Beach Park Middle School, Shiloh Park Middle School and Zion Central Middle School. In 2025–2026, the schools’ average proficiency was 31% in ELA and 9% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide. The most important finding is that all three schools remain well below state proficiency levels, especially in math.
Beach Park is the all-grades leader: 34% of students were proficient in ELA and 15% in math, compared with 30% and 9% at Shiloh Park and 30% and 4% at Zion Central. The biggest school-to-school differences are in math and eighth-grade science: the ranges are 10 and 18 percentage points, respectively, with Beach Park highest in both. Grade-level results add important nuance: Shiloh Park leads seventh-grade ELA at 36%, while Zion Central leads eighth-grade ELA at 40%, just ahead of Beach Park at 39%.
ELA scores rose at all three schools between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, but math rose at Beach Park and Shiloh Park and fell at Zion Central; overall, the group narrowed its state gap by 7 points in ELA but only 0 points in math. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentiles also declined: from 25th to 6th at Beach Park, 6th to 2nd at Shiloh Park, and 13th to 2nd at Zion Central; all three have zero stars. Context differs, too: the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible share was 57% at Beach Park and 86% at each of the other schools. Student-teacher ratios range from 11.1 at Zion Central to 14.5 at Beach Park; Zion Central also has the lowest chronic absenteeism, 23%, just below the state’s 24%.
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