Summary:
ZIP code 60549 has two schools serving grades 5–12: Serena Middle School (grades 5–8, 184 students) and Serena High School (grades 9–12, 162 students). Both have student-teacher ratios close to 12 to 1, and chronic absenteeism at each was below the statewide rate in 2025–2026. The most consequential concern in the supplied results is the high school’s 71% graduation rate, 18 percentage points below the state’s 90%.
Serena Middle School stands out in all-grades ELA: 59% met expectations, 3 percentage points above the state; its math result was weaker, at 29%, 11 points below. At Serena High School, 10th-grade science was relatively close to the state (47% versus 48%), while 9th-grade ELA was the largest shortfall among the highlighted results: 35% versus 62%, or 26 points below. There is no sound overall winner because the schools serve different grades and their results are not directly comparable.
Trends are mixed: middle-school ELA rose 8 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while math fell 4; at the high school, 11th-grade ACT ELA improved 10 points, but 9th-grade PreACT ELA fell 23. SchoolDigger ranks Serena Middle School at the 51st statewide percentile (3 stars) and Serena High School at the 35th percentile (2 stars). In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 45% at the middle school and 34% at the high school; these are descriptive figures, not explanations of results.
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