Summary:
ZIP code 60480 has one listed school, Willow Springs Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8, with 414 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grade mathematics results were above Illinois’s, at 42% compared with 40%, while ELA was slightly below, at 55% versus 56%. Chronic absenteeism was also higher: 33% at the school compared with 24% statewide. The clearest concern in the results is grade 5 science, where the school scored 37%, 11 percentage points below the state.
Because this is the only school listed, there is no top or bottom school to compare within the ZIP code. Results vary substantially by grade: ELA was strongest in grade 8 at 71% and weakest in grade 5 at 39%; mathematics was highest in grade 4 at 55% and lowest in grade 5 at 27%. Grade 4 ELA was 15 points above the state, and grade 8 ELA was 8 points above. By contrast, grade 5 ELA was 16 points below the state and grade 5 mathematics was 9 points below. Grade 8 science was closer to the state than grade 5 science: 50% versus 52%, a 2-point gap.
Recent changes offer a mixed picture: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, schoolwide ELA rose 2 points, less than the state’s 3-point rise, while mathematics climbed 5 points compared with a 1-point state increase. Science also moved differently by grade: grade 8 rose 13 points and narrowed its gap with the state, while grade 5 rose 2 points as the state gained 7, widening the gap. SchoolDigger gives the school 2 stars and ranks it 1,027th of 1,737 schools, in the 41st percentile; its reported percentile fell from 54th in 2023–2024. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 11.8 in 2024–2025, and 66% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year—contextual figures, not explanations for test results.
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