Summary:
Schools in zip code 60185 include nine schools—six elementary, two middle and one high school—serving families across the elementary-through-high-school years. Results vary substantially by school, so the area-wide picture can be misleading: the most important finding is that achievement differs sharply from one school to another.
Norton Creek Elementary School led the elementary schools in 2025–2026, with 81% proficiency in ELA and 78% in math—25 and 39 percentage points above state results. At the other end, Wegner Elementary School had the lowest elementary ELA result, 24%, while Currier Elementary School had the lowest math result, 23%. The middle-school gap is also pronounced: in shared grades 6–8, Benjamin Middle School averaged 74% in ELA and 52% in math, compared with 44% and 25% at Leman Middle School. Benjamin led Leman in every shared grade and subject.
Elementary results moved farther below state averages overall: the six-school ELA average slipped from 43% to 43% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while the state rose from 53% to 56%; math fell from 38% to 36% as the state increased from 39% to 40%. Individual results differed, however: Indian Knoll Elementary School’s ELA rose 5 percentage points, while its math fell 6. SchoolDigger’s latest rankings ranged from the 93rd percentile for Norton Creek and the 77th for Benjamin to the 9th for both Wegner and Currier; every school’s ranking declined over the listed three-year span. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares among elementary schools ranged from 10% at Norton Creek to 72% at Currier. These figures describe school differences, not what caused them.
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