Summary:
Zip code 60411 has 21 schools—15 elementary, four middle and two high schools—serving children from the primary grades through high school. Among the ten K–5 schools with reported results, the average was 48% in ELA and 35% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide. The key finding for families is that results vary widely from school to school, so the area-wide averages hide substantial differences.
Among K–5 schools, U.S. Grant Elementary led in ELA at 68%, with Greenbriar Elementary close behind at 67%; Kennedy Elementary scored 62%. Grant and Kennedy tied for the top math result at 47%. At the other end, Washington-McKinley Elementary had the lowest K–5 results, at 29% in ELA and 26% in math. Across schools with different grade spans, Medgar Evers Primary Academic Center had the lowest all-grades ELA result, 20%, while Cottage Grove Upper Grade Center had the lowest math result, 7%. Grade-specific results also show strengths: Greenbriar reached 73% in grade 5 science, 26 points above the state.
K–5 ELA results improved from an average of 46% in 2024–25 to 48% in 2025–26, but the state average rose faster, from 53% to 56%; the local gap widened from 7 to 8 points. Math averages rose by 1 point locally and statewide. Individual results differed: U.S. Grant’s ELA score rose 15 points, while Lincoln Elementary fell 9 points. SchoolDigger’s percentile for Greenbriar rose from 51 to 77 between 2023–24 and 2025–26. School measures provide context, not an explanation for results: U.S. Grant had a 9.8 student-teacher ratio, while Kennedy’s was 19.3; for 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible was reported as 95% at Grant and 97% at Kennedy.
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