Summary:
Schools in ZIP code 60466 include seven schools—five elementary schools and two classified as middle schools—serving grades from K–3 at three schools to K–8 at Illinois School; together they enroll 1,941 students, or about 277 per school, and there are no high schools in the list. Results vary substantially by grade, so a school’s overall score may not reflect the grades your child would attend. Across available same-grade comparisons, school results average 16 percentage points below the state in math, compared with 5 points below in ELA, making math the clearest shared challenge.
21st Century Primary Center leads the reported third-grade results: 51% proficient in both ELA and math, 3 points above the state in ELA and 2 points above in math. For several older grades, Illinois School stands out, leading reported ELA in grades 4, 6, 7 and 8; its sixth-grade ELA result is 80%, 21 points above the state. At the other end, Talala Elementary in Park Forest has the lowest reported third-grade results: 26% in ELA and 23% in math, 22 and 26 points below state results. Michelle Obama School of Technology and the Arts is also below the state in each reported middle-grade math result, by 21 to 24 points.
All-grades ELA improved over two years: the seven-school average rose 6 points, compared with a 3-point state increase, narrowing the gap from 15 to 12 points. Math moved the other way: the school average fell 1 point as the state rose 1, widening the gap from 9 to 12 points; Mohawk Primary Center had the largest all-grades math drop, 15 points. SchoolDigger ranks Talala in the 4th percentile with 0 stars, Michelle Obama in the 13th percentile with 1 star, and Illinois School in the 32nd percentile with 2 stars. For context, all seven schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible rates for 2024–25, ranging from 54% to 85%; student–teacher ratios ranged from 10.4 to 15.8.
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