Summary:
Zip code 60420 has one listed elementary school, Dwight Common School, serving prekindergarten through eighth grade and enrolling 519 students. With no other local schools in the list, families can compare its results with statewide figures and across its grade levels, but not with another nearby school. In 2025–2026, all-grades English language arts (ELA) matched the state at 56%, while math was 23% compared with 40% statewide—a 17-point shortfall, the clearest overall concern.
Results vary considerably by grade and subject, so the strongest and weakest results are within the school rather than between schools. Third-grade ELA stands out: 68% were proficient, 20 points above the state’s 48%; eighth-grade ELA was also above the state, at 70% versus 63%, or 7 points higher. By contrast, fourth through seventh grades were below state ELA results. In science, eighth grade was a strength at 65%, 13 points above the state’s 52%, while fifth grade was at 35%, 13 points below the state’s 48%. Third-grade math was close to, but below, the state result (47% versus 49%); some other grade-level math scores were not reported.
Recent changes are mixed: ELA improved, while math fell farther behind the state. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grades ELA rose 9 points, from 47% to 56%, bringing it level with the state; math fell 3 points, from 26% to 23%, as the state rose 1 point, widening the gap to 17 points. Science also differed sharply by grade: fifth-grade results fell 7 points while the state rose 7, whereas eighth-grade results rose 15 points. SchoolDigger lists the school at rank 1,052 of 1,737, in the 39th percentile, with 2 stars for 2025–2026; its percentile was 24 in 2023–2024 and 42 in 2024–2025. Other context includes a 12.7 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 45% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Chronic absenteeism was 10% in 2025–2026, below the state’s 24%.
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