Summary:
Zip code 60444 has one listed middle school, Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle School, serving grades 5–8 and enrolling 144 students. With just one school, there is no local peer comparison; the results are best understood against state figures. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades English language arts (ELA) result was 50%, compared with 56% statewide, while mathematics was 21%, compared with 40%. The most important finding is that mathematics is the school’s largest gap with the state: 19 percentage points below.
Science is the school’s clearest strength against state results, while ELA varies by grade. In 2025–2026, fifth-grade science was 62% compared with 48% statewide, and eighth-grade science was 56% compared with 52%. ELA was above the state in grade 5 (58% versus 55%), but below it in grades 6, 7, and 8; the largest difference was in grade 7, at 39% versus 58%, or 18 percentage points below. The all-grades ELA result therefore hides meaningful grade-level differences. Sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade mathematics results were suppressed, so no figures are available for those grades.
Across the two years reported, the all-grades gaps widened in both ELA and math: the school’s ELA rose 2 percentage points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while the state rose 3; the math result fell by less than 1 point while the state rose 1. Fifth-grade science improved notably, rising 22 points as the state rose 7, shifting the school from slightly below the state to 14 points above it. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking percentile declined from 53 in 2023–2024 to 34 in 2025–2026, and its rating was 2 stars in 2025–2026. Other context measures are a 12.7 student-teacher ratio and 42% free/reduced lunch eligible, both for 2024–2025. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 16%, below the state’s 24% but above the district’s 13%. These figures describe the school but cannot establish how it compares with similar schools.
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