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Schools in Zip Code 60171


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4
Schools
1,221
Students
3
Districts
Top rankedRiver Grove Elementary School898th of 1,737 Illinois elementary schools
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Biggest riser
River Grove Elementary School up 125 spots statewide this year
Summary:

Zip code 60171 has two elementary schools, River Grove Elementary School and Rhodes Elementary School, and both serve prekindergarten through grade 8. The latest results are for 2025–2026, with comparable results available for the prior school year. The central finding is that River Grove’s schoolwide proficiency is substantially higher in both tested subjects, although some grade-level results are close.

River Grove stands out in the all-grades results: 71% were proficient in ELA and 45% in math, compared with 45% and 31% at Rhodes—gaps of 26 and 14 points. River Grove was also above the state in both subjects, while Rhodes was below it. The strongest grade-level contrasts were in grade 7: River Grove led by 48 points in ELA and 44 in math. There are notable exceptions: grade 3 math was nearly tied (53.7% at River Grove and 53.8% at Rhodes), as was grade 5 science (35.4% and 35.3%). Rhodes’s grade 5 math score is suppressed and unavailable.

Both schools improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. River Grove gained 11 points in ELA and 9 in math; Rhodes gained 2 in ELA and 8 in math, though its latest scores remain lower. SchoolDigger’s school percentiles were 48 for River Grove and 31 for Rhodes in 2025–2026; its district ratings were 3 stars and rank 276 of 738 for River Grove School District 85-5, versus 1 star and rank 639 of 738 for Rhodes School District 84-5. Other reported differences are context, not explanations: River Grove’s student-teacher ratio was 13.5 compared with Rhodes’s 7.4, and for 2024–2025, 51% of River Grove students and 69% of Rhodes students were free/reduced lunch eligible.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education.

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