Summary:
ZIP code 60505 has 17 schools—12 elementary, four middle, and one high school—serving students from elementary through high school in the Aurora East Unified School District 131. Across the elementary schools, proficiency is consistently well below state results, while the middle schools show a sharp split: one school performs far above the others. The clearest overall standout is Fred Rodgers Magnet Academy.
Fred Rodgers leads the middle schools, with 88% proficient in all-grade ELA, 53% in math, and 86% in eighth-grade science in 2025–26—32, 13, and 34 percentage points above state results, respectively. The other three middle schools averaged 24% in ELA and 11% in math, both well below the state. Among elementary schools, John Gates led ELA at 20%, while Nicholas A Hermes led math at 15%; both results were below state levels. One bright spot was W S Beaupre, where fifth-grade science reached 49%, just above the state’s 48%.
Recent trends vary by subject: the elementary-school ELA average slipped from 19% to 18% between 2024–25 and 2025–26, widening the gap with the state, while the science average rose from 14% to 26%. Beaupre’s science result jumped from 15% to 49%; by contrast, East High’s 11th-grade ACT gaps with the state narrowed slightly, while its grade 9 and 10 PreACT gaps widened. SchoolDigger ranked Fred Rodgers at the 87th percentile statewide; the other middle schools ranked in the 1st–3rd percentiles, and elementary schools were generally in the 0th–2nd. For context, reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–25 ranged from 55% at Fred Rodgers to 70% at Waldo; these figures describe the schools, not the cause of their results. Fred Rodgers has 284 students and a 14.7 student-teacher ratio, compared with 729–807 students and ratios of 13.0–13.3 at the other middle schools. Benavides has no test scores in the data.
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