Summary:
ZIP code 60190 has three schools serving pre-K through grade 8: Pleasant Hill Elementary School (K–5), Winfield Central School (grades 3–8) and Winfield Primary School (pre-K–2). Together, they enroll 894 students. The clearest overall academic standout is Pleasant Hill, which leads the other school with reported all-grades test results in both subjects.
Pleasant Hill Elementary School reports 69% proficient in all-grades ELA and 59% in math, compared with 56% and 47% at Winfield Central School—gaps of 13 and 11 percentage points. Pleasant Hill also leads ELA in each shared grade, by 12 points in grade 3, 9 in grade 4 and 16 in grade 5. The lead is not universal: Winfield Central is 10 points ahead in grade 3 math, while Pleasant Hill leads grade 4 math by 22 points. Winfield Central’s results vary by grade, too: its grade 6 ELA is 15 points above the state, while grade 7 ELA is 14 points below. Winfield Primary School has no test results in the supplied data, so it cannot be ranked against the others academically here.
Both tested schools improved their all-grades scores from 2024–25 to 2025–26, but ELA gains lagged the state’s: Pleasant Hill rose 2 points and Winfield Central 2, while the state rose 3. In math, Pleasant Hill gained 3 points and Winfield Central 2, compared with a 1-point state gain. Science moved in different directions: Pleasant Hill’s grade 5 result rose 16 points, while Winfield Central’s fell 11; Winfield Central’s grade 8 science rose 14 points. SchoolDigger rankings declined from 83rd to 75th percentile for Pleasant Hill and from 74th to 61st for Winfield Central. For context, 2024–25 student-teacher ratios were 13.7:1 at Pleasant Hill and 9.6:1 at Winfield Central; free/reduced lunch eligible figures that year were 40% and 30%, respectively. These measures describe school context, not reasons for test results; grade spans differ, some scores are suppressed, and the primary school has no test scores supplied.
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