Summary:
ZIP code 60131 has five schools: three elementary schools, one junior high and one high school, serving students from elementary grades through high school. The elementary schools have the clearest school-to-school comparison: in 2025–2026, all three were above state proficiency in both all-grades English language arts (ELA) and math. Their average results were 73% in ELA and 57% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide—advantages of 16 and 18 percentage points. The strongest overall finding is that the elementary schools performed above state results in both subjects, though results varied considerably by school.
Passow Elementary School led the elementary schools in ELA at 82% and math at 62%; North Elementary School led fifth-grade science at 65%, ahead of Dan H. Pietrini Elementary School at 61% and Passow at 55%. The lower elementary results were still above state levels: North’s ELA was 65%, while Pietrini’s math was 52%. At Hester Junior High School, ELA was a relative strength at 72%, 15 points above the state, while math was 36%, 4 points below. East Leyden High School was below state results in all three 11th-grade ACT subjects: by 6 points in ELA, 5 in math and 3 in science.
Elementary results improved overall from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the three-school average rose 7 points in ELA and 5 in math, and Pietrini had the largest gains, up 18 points in ELA and 14 in math. Progress was not uniform: North’s ELA rose less than 1 point, and Passow’s math fell 2 points. SchoolDigger rankings rose for Passow, from the 68th to the 83rd percentile, Pietrini, from the 63rd to the 71st, and North, from the 70th to the 72nd; Hester and East Leyden’s rankings fell. The elementary schools’ 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares ranged from 57% at North to 68% at Pietrini, and their student-teacher ratios were similar, from 10.9 to 11.1. These figures offer context, but do not explain the differences in results.
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