Summary:
Elementary schools in zip code 60416 include three Coal City schools serving preschool through grade 5, with 1,033 students combined. All are part of Coal City CUSD 1, which SchoolDigger rates 4 stars and ranks 170th of 738 Illinois districts. The clearest academic standout is Coal City Intermediate School: its 2025–2026 grade 5 ELA proficiency was 82%, compared with 55% statewide, a 27-point advantage.
Coal City Intermediate led the reported grade-specific results: it was 17 points above the state in grade 4 ELA and 27 points above in grade 5 ELA; in math, it was about 15 points above the state in both grades. Its grade 5 science result was 60%, versus 48% statewide, a 12-point advantage. Coal City Elementary School was also above state results in its reported grade 3 scores, by 4 points in ELA and 3 points in math. In the all-grades figures, Elementary was 5 points below the state in ELA, while Intermediate was 21 points above; those school-wide figures cover different grades, so they are not a like-for-like comparison. The Early Childhood Center has no test results listed.
Recent score trends differ: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Elementary’s all-grades ELA fell 8 points and math fell 7, while Intermediate’s ELA rose 4 points and math rose 1. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Intermediate also declined, from 86th in 2023–2024 to 78th in 2025–2026. As context, 2024–2025 student-teacher ratios were 14.3 at Elementary and 15.6 at Intermediate; free/reduced lunch eligible rates that year were 34% and 33%, respectively. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was below the state rate at all three schools: 11% at the Early Childhood Center, 8% at Elementary, and 9% at Intermediate, compared with 24% statewide.
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