Summary:
ZIP code 60175 has three schools: two elementary schools serving kindergarten through grade 5 and one high school serving grades 9–12. Across the latest reported results, all three schools were well above state proficiency levels in their comparable tests; the strongest overall finding is that every school exceeded the state in each reported subject and grade.
Ferson Creek School stands out in elementary ELA, with 93% proficient in All Grades IAR compared with 87% at Bell-Graham Elementary School, a 6-point lead. Bell-Graham leads All Grades math, 84% to 83%, while Ferson leads fifth-grade science, 83% to 80%. Both schools were far above state results in these measures: their ELA leads were 31–36 points, math leads 44–45 points, and science leads 32–36 points. The only high school, St Charles North High School, also exceeded the state across its reported results; its largest margin was 38 points in grade 11 ACT math, with 77% proficient versus 40% statewide.
Recent elementary trends were mostly positive: Ferson’s All Grades ELA rose 9 points and its fifth-grade science result rose 16 points, while Bell-Graham’s All Grades math increased 2 points. The notable high-school exception was grade 9 science, which fell 9 points, from 74% to 65%; it remained above state, but its lead narrowed by 5 points. SchoolDigger ranked Ferson 24th of 1,737 elementary schools, Bell-Graham 44th of 1,737, and St Charles North 25th of 620 high schools in 2025–2026. The elementary schools have similar student-teacher ratios—14.2 at Ferson and 14.9 at Bell-Graham—and similar 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligibility, 8% and 8%, respectively; these are contextual measures, not explanations for results.
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