Schools in Zip Code 60477

Schools in ZIP code 60477 include eight schools: five elementary, two middle and one high school, serving students from prekindergarten through high school. Test scores are listed for seven; Kimberly Heights Elementary School, which serves PK–K, has no scores in this list. The clearest overall finding is that all four elementary schools and both middle schools scored above state results in all-grades ELA and math in 2025–2026.

Virgil I Grissom Middle School is the strongest middle-school performer: it reached 77% in ELA and 60% in math, about 21 and 20 percentage points above state, and led Central Middle School by 3 points in ELA and 17 in math. Among elementary schools, the leader depends on subject: Memorial Elementary School led ELA at 74%, while John A Bannes Elementary School led math at 61%. Bert H Fulton School had the lowest elementary all-grades ELA result, 58%—17 points below Memorial—but led fifth-grade science at 66%. At the high school, Tinley Park High School was below state in all three grade 11 ACT subjects by 2 to 5 points, while its 94% graduation rate was 4 points above state.

Most K–8 schools improved their all-grades IAR results from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the six-school average rose 6 points in ELA and 5 in math, compared with state increases of 3 and 1 points. Gains were not universal: Fulton’s ELA fell 7 points, and Bannes’s math fell 2, despite Bannes gaining 13 points in ELA. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose from 46 to 70 for Helen Keller Elementary School, while it declined from 89 to 84 for Grissom and from 82 to 78 for Bannes. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 44% at Fulton, 40% at Central, 38% at Memorial and 35% at Kimberly Heights; Bannes and Keller reported 15% and 16% in 2021–2022. Student–teacher ratios were 12.9 at Bannes and 12.2 at Keller; these figures describe context, not a reason for score differences.