Summary:
ZIP code 60174 has nine schools serving grades K–12—six elementary, two middle and one high school—all in St Charles CUSD 303. Overall, school results are generally above state proficiency, but elementary performance varies sharply: the gap between the highest- and lowest-scoring schools is 31 percentage points in both all-grades ELA and math, making school-to-school differences the area’s clearest finding.
Wild Rose Elementary leads the elementary schools, with 84% proficient in ELA and 80% in math in 2025–2026; those results are 27 and 40 points above the state, respectively. At the other end, Richmond Elementary has 53% in ELA and 48% in math—18 and 14 points below the elementary-school averages. Richmond’s ELA is 4 points below the state, though its math remains 9 points above. Among middle schools, Thompson Middle leads in ELA and eighth-grade science, while Wredling Middle leads in math; both are well above state results. St Charles East High also exceeds state proficiency in all three reported ACT subjects, including a 21-point advantage in math.
Recent elementary trends are mixed: among the five schools with prior-year data, average ELA edged down from 69% to 68% and math from 63% to 61%, while state results rose, narrowing the schools’ average advantage. SchoolDigger ranks Wild Rose at the 96th percentile and Richmond at the 50th; these are comparative rankings, not test-score changes. Income figures are context, not an explanation of results: in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 9% at Wild Rose and 50% at Richmond, while Davis Elementary and Munhall Elementary each reported 29% but had different results. Wild Rose also had the largest elementary enrollment and a 14.3 student-teacher ratio, compared with Davis’s 12.4, yet led in test results. At the high school, strong test and graduation results coexist with chronic absenteeism of 32%, above the state’s 24%.
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