Summary:
Zip code 60143 has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 8: Raymond Benson Primary School serves PK–2, Elmer H. Franzen Intermediate School serves grades 3–5, and F. E. Peacock Middle School serves grades 6–8. The two schools with test results are well above state proficiency levels in both English and math, and Franzen has the strongest 2025–26 results—especially in math.
Franzen leads Peacock in both tested subjects: in 2025–26, 84% of Franzen students and 79% of Peacock students were proficient in English, a 5-point gap; in math, the results were 74% and 60%, a 14-point gap. Both schools also exceeded state results: Franzen was ahead by 28 points in English and 34 in math, while Peacock was ahead by 23 and 21 points. SchoolDigger’s latest rankings also place Franzen higher: the 95th percentile, rank 94 of 1,737 schools, compared with Peacock at the 84th percentile, rank 182 of 1,126. Raymond Benson has no test scores in the supplied data, so it cannot be compared on proficiency.
The schools’ recent directions differ: Franzen improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26 by 7 points in English and 2 in math, while Peacock fell by 4 points in English and 8 in math. Their science results also moved in opposite directions—Franzen’s grade 5 score rose 18 points, while Peacock’s grade 8 score fell 16; those grades are not directly comparable. For context, 2024–25 student-teacher ratios were 15.4 at Franzen and 12.9 at Peacock, and free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2021–22 were 6% and 7%, respectively; these are observations, not explanations for score differences. All three schools had lower 2025–26 chronic absenteeism than the state’s 24% rate: Franzen was at 8%, Peacock at 11%, and Raymond Benson at 13%.
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