Summary:
ZIP code 60544 has two public middle schools, both serving grades 6–8 in Plainfield School District 202: Richard Ira Jones Middle School and Indian Trail Middle School. In 2025–2026, their unweighted average proficiency rates were 72% in ELA, 44% in math, and 63% in eighth-grade science—about 15, 5, and 11 percentage points above state rates, respectively. The clearest overall takeaway is that Jones leads in all three latest reported measures.
Jones is the stronger performer across subjects, while Indian Trail’s results vary by subject and grade. Jones had 80% proficiency in ELA, compared with Indian Trail’s 64%, a 16-point gap; in all-grades math, the rates were 50% and 38%, a 12-point gap. In eighth-grade science, Jones led 67% to 59%, an 8-point difference. Indian Trail was not below the state in every area: its ELA rate was 7 points above the state, and its eighth-grade science rate was also 7 points above. Its overall math rate was 1 point below the state, but eighth-grade math was 43% versus the state’s 35%; seventh-grade math was the weaker grade, at 35% versus 40% statewide.
Scores rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 at both schools in all three measures. Jones improved by 7 points in ELA, 2 in math, and 5 in science; Indian Trail rose by 5, 5, and 8 points, respectively. SchoolDigger’s latest percentiles were 80 for Jones and 55 for Indian Trail, after 84 and 65 the prior year; their latest ranks were 226 and 502 out of 1,126. Context measures differ, too: in 2024–2025, 22% of Jones students and 39% of Indian Trail students were free/reduced lunch eligible. Their student-teacher ratios were 15.4 and 13.3, respectively. These measures offer context but do not explain the schools’ results.
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