Summary:
ZIP code 60476 has one listed elementary school, Wolcott School, serving Pre-K through grade 8 and enrolling 249 students; with no other local school listed, there is no meaningful within-ZIP school comparison. In 2025–26, Wolcott’s all-grades ELA proficiency was 46%, 11 percentage points below Illinois’ 56%, while math was 24%, 15 points below the state’s 40%—the larger current shortfall is in math.
Some grade-level results stand out more positively than the all-grades picture. Third-grade ELA was 50%, 2 points above the state’s 48%, and fifth-grade science in 2024–25 was 46%, 5 points above the state’s 41%. By contrast, eighth-grade ELA in 2025–26 was 44%, compared with 63% statewide—a 20-point gap and the largest shortfall among the reported ELA grades. Science results also varied by grade: eighth-grade science in 2024–25 was 39%, 6 points below the state’s 45%.
Math results worsened year over year: Wolcott fell from 33% in 2024–25 to 24% in 2025–26, while the state rose from 39% to 40%; the school’s gap widened from 5 points below the state to 15 points below. ELA improved from 43% to 46%, but the state rose from 53% to 56%, leaving Wolcott’s gap slightly wider, at 11 points rather than 10. SchoolDigger’s ranking history also moved down, from the 58th percentile in 2023–24 to the 37th in 2025–26; its latest listing gives it one star and a rank of 586 out of 738 statewide. Other school context includes a 17.7:1 student-teacher ratio and 58% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25, plus 25% chronic absenteeism in 2025–26, compared with 24% statewide.
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