Summary:
ZIP code 60154 has one listed middle school, Westchester Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 324 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grade ELA proficiency was 66%, compared with 56% statewide and 56% in the district; eighth-grade science was 63%, versus 52% statewide. Mathematics was more mixed: the all-grade result was 37%, compared with 40% statewide. The clearest takeaway is that ELA and eighth-grade science are strengths relative to the state, while all-grade mathematics is slightly below it.
Within Westchester, ELA was above state results in all three grades, with the largest advantage in grade 8: 73% proficient versus 63% statewide, a 10-point gap. Grade 7 mathematics was 41%, about 1 point above the state, and grade 8 was 40%, 5 points above; grade 6 was the low point at 32%, 4 points below the state. Chronic absenteeism was 14% in 2025–2026, 10 points below the state rate but 1 point above the 13% rate in Westchester School District 92-5. Since this is the only school listed, there are no local school-to-school leaders or comparisons.
Westchester’s scores did not all decline from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, but state results rose faster in each comparable subject: ELA stayed at 66% as its state advantage narrowed from 13 to 10 points; mathematics fell from 39% to 37%, moving from 1 point above the state to 2 points below; and science rose from 60% to 63%, while its state advantage narrowed from 14 to 11 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 59th percentile in 2023–2024, 75th in 2024–2025, and 58th in 2025–2026—a rise followed by a pullback, not steady improvement. For context, its 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 11.5:1, and 49% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year; these figures describe the school, but do not establish why its results differ by subject or grade.
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