Summary:
Zip code 60462 has one listed high school, Carl Sandburg High School, serving grades 9–12 with 2,840 students in Cons HSD 230. Its outcomes are favorable compared with Illinois: the graduation rate is 96% versus 90% statewide, chronic absenteeism is 13% versus 24%, and dropout is 1% versus 2%. The most important finding is that Carl Sandburg exceeded the state proficiency rate in all nine reported grade-and-subject results in 2025–26, by an average of 13 percentage points.
There is no meaningful top-to-bottom school comparison because Carl Sandburg is the only school listed. Against the state, its largest advantage was 18 points in grade 10 PreACT science, and its smallest was 9 points in grade 11 ACT science. It also performed above the district in seven of nine test results; the exceptions were PreACT mathematics, where it was 1 point below the district in grade 10 and 2 points below in grade 9, while remaining above the state in both. SchoolDigger ranked it 96th of 620 Illinois high schools in 2025–26, at the 85th percentile with four stars.
Results over time are mixed: compared with 2024–25, the school’s rates rose in all three grade 10 PreACT subjects but fell in the grade 11 ACT subjects and all three grade 9 PreACT subjects. Its lead over the state narrowed in seven of nine matched results, with the average gap declining from 15 points to 13 points; the largest narrowing was 7 points in grade 9 PreACT mathematics. SchoolDigger ranked the school 69th of 698, at the 90th percentile with five stars, in 2024–25. The student–teacher ratio was 15.6 in 2024–25, and 18% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2021–22; these are context, not explanations for results. With just one school in the list, the data cannot show how it compares with other nearby high schools.
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