Summary:
Zip code 60430 has two elementary schools in Homewood School District 153: Willow School serves prekindergarten through grade 2 and enrolls 603 students, while Winston Churchill School serves grades 3–5 and enrolls 572. Willow has no test scores in the supplied data, so the results cannot establish which school performs better overall. The clearest achievement finding is that Churchill’s results vary substantially by grade: fifth grade was above state results in both tested subjects, while third and fourth grades were below.
Churchill’s fifth grade stands out at the top: in 2025–2026, its results were about 1 percentage point above the state in ELA and 4 points above in math. Its lower results were in third-grade math, 9 points below the state, and fourth-grade ELA, 8 points below; third-grade ELA was 4 points below, and fourth-grade math was 7 points below. These are comparisons with the state for the same grade, not comparisons between the two schools. Because Willow has no supplied test results, it cannot be placed at the top or bottom based on achievement.
Churchill’s all-grade ELA results weakened relative to the state: its score fell 4 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 as the state score rose 3 points, widening the gap by 7 points. Math was essentially flat at Churchill while the state improved, widening that gap by 1 point. SchoolDigger lists Churchill at the 37th percentile in 2025–2026, down 18 percentile points from the prior year; this is a ranking change, not a test-score change. For context, the student-teacher ratios were 12.4 at Willow and 13.7 at Churchill. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 46% at Willow and 49% at Churchill. These differences describe the schools but do not explain their results.
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