Summary:
Zip code 60458 has two K–6 elementary schools, both in Indian Springs School District 109. In 2025–2026, their results differed substantially: Frank A Brodnicki Elementary School had 69% proficiency in ELA and 50% in math, compared with 41% and 28% at George T Wilkins Elementary School. Brodnicki was above state results in both subjects, while Wilkins was below them. The most important finding for families is the wide performance gap between the two schools: 28 percentage points in ELA and 22 points in math.
Brodnicki stands out as the stronger performer across the latest overall results and fifth-grade science: its science proficiency was 48%, compared with 33% at Wilkins. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 statewide ranking also places Brodnicki higher, at the 64th percentile with three stars, versus Wilkins at the 25th percentile with one star. Grade-level results show that averages do not tell the whole story: Brodnicki’s grade 4 math proficiency was 68%, 26 points above the state, while its grade 6 result was 31%, 6 points below. Wilkins’s grade 4 math result was 46%, 4 points above the state, but its grade 3 result was 20%, 29 points below.
Recent changes were mixed: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Brodnicki’s ELA rose about 1 point and math rose 4, while Wilkins’s ELA fell about 2 points and math fell 1. Fifth-grade science improved at both schools—about 18 points at Brodnicki and 19 at Wilkins—though Wilkins remained below the state. Context measures differ too: in 2024–2025, 62% of Brodnicki students and 82% of Wilkins students were eligible for free/reduced lunch; student-teacher ratios were 13.6 and 11.1, respectively. Wilkins had the lower ratio, but not the higher proficiency, so these figures are observations rather than explanations for results. Brodnicki’s SchoolDigger percentile ranking has also fallen from 75th in 2023–2024 to 64th in 2025–2026, despite its latest-year score gains.
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