Summary:
The 60112 zip code is home to a single elementary school, Cortland Elementary School, which serves students from kindergarten through 5th grade. While the school has a relatively low student-teacher ratio, its academic performance lags behind both the DeKalb CUSD 428 district and the state of Illinois as a whole.
Cortland Elementary School has a rating of just 1 out of 5 stars from SchoolDigger, and its students consistently underperform on standardized tests. In the 2024-2025 school year, only 28.9% of students were proficient or better in English Language Arts, compared to 23.8% for the district and 53.1% for the state. In math, just 22.8% of Cortland students were proficient or better, compared to 19.3% for the district and 38.5% for the state. The school also struggles with a high chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4%.
Despite the school's academic challenges, it spends more per student than the state average, at $20,737 per student. Additionally, the student-teacher ratio of 12.5 is lower than the state average. These factors suggest that the school may be investing resources in an effort to improve student outcomes, though the data indicates that more support may be needed to address the underlying issues contributing to the school's low performance.
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