Schools in Zip Code 60491

Zip code 60491 has seven schools—four elementary and three middle schools, with no high schools—including two schools serving PK–1. William E. Young and Goodings Grove have no test scores in the supplied data, so comparisons cover the five schools with reported results. The most important finding is that all five reporting schools scored above the state in both ELA and math in 2025–26; even the smallest leads were 8 points for Reed Elementary School in ELA and 13 points for Oak Prairie Junior High School in math.

There is no single leader across both subjects. Homer Junior High School and Oak Prairie led All Grades ELA, at 83% and 82%, while Reed was lowest at 64%. Reed topped math at 66%, with Oak Prairie lowest at 53%. Same-grade results reinforce the different profiles: in Grade 6, Hadley Middle School led Oak Prairie by 7 points in ELA and 8 in math; in Grade 7, Oak Prairie led Homer by 3 points in ELA, while Homer led math by 6 points. In Grade 8, Homer and Oak Prairie were nearly even in ELA, but Homer led math by 13 points.

Recent trends also differ by subject: all five schools’ ELA results fell from 2024–25 to 2025–26, and their average dropped 2 points, while math improved at three schools. Reed made the largest math gain, up 8 points; Hadley rose 5 and Oak Prairie 3, while Homer and Luther J Schilling School each fell about 2 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranks also moved down between 2023–24 and 2025–26 for Homer, from 95th to 89th, and Schilling, from 87th to 78th; these are rankings, not test-score changes. Ratios range from 10.6 students per teacher at Oak Prairie to 14.8 at Homer, without a consistent match to results. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 29% at Oak Prairie and 35% at Reed, whose ELA and math results diverged sharply; these are context, not an explanation of performance.