Summary:
ZIP code 60404 has four elementary schools—Walnut Trails Elementary School, Troy Cronin Elementary School, Troy Hofer Elementary School and Troy Shorewood School—and all serve grades 3 and 4, though their full grade spans differ. The area’s four-school average for 2025–2026 was 63% proficient in all-grades ELA and 56% in math, above the state rates of 56% and 40%. The most important takeaway is that results vary substantially from school to school, especially in math: the gap between the strongest and weakest all-grades scores is 24 points.
Walnut Trails leads in both subjects, with 67% proficient in ELA and 67% in math—11 and 27 points above the state, respectively. Troy Cronin is at the bottom, with 54% in ELA and 43% in math; its ELA rate is 2 points below the state, while its math rate is 3 points above. Troy Shorewood stands out in fourth-grade ELA at 74%, 19 points above the state. Troy Hofer also compares favorably with Cronin: its all-grades results are 10 points higher in ELA and 14 points higher in math.
Recent results show Hofer moving in a different direction from the other schools: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Hofer rose 8 points in ELA and 5 in math, while the other three schools declined in both subjects. Across all four schools, the ELA average was essentially unchanged at 63%, and the math average fell from 59% to 56%, while state results rose in both subjects. SchoolDigger’s ranking percentiles from 2023–2024 to 2025–2026 rose from 75 to 80 for Walnut Trails, but fell from 64 to 44 for Cronin, 82 to 68 for Hofer and 81 to 67 for Shorewood; these are rankings, not test-score changes. All four schools report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025: 20% at Walnut Trails, 46% at Cronin, 46% at Hofer and 38% at Shorewood. Similar figures at Hofer and Cronin accompany different results; their student-teacher ratios are 12.2 and 9.6, respectively, so these measures offer context but do not explain the score differences.
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