Summary:
Zip code 60950 has one middle school, Manteno Middle School, serving grades 5–8 with 520 students. Its strongest result is English language arts (ELA): in 2025–2026, 70% of students were proficient, 14 percentage points above the state’s 56%.
Because this is the only listed school, there is no local school-to-school top or bottom comparison. Compared with the state, Manteno was above average in every reported subject and grade, but its advantage was much stronger in ELA than in math: all-grades math proficiency was 44%, 4 points above the state’s 40%, while ELA was 14 points above. ELA exceeded the state by 9 to 16 points across grades. Math results were more mixed, with grade-level leads ranging from 1 to 15 points. Science was also above the state: by 5 points in grade 5 and 2 points in grade 8.
From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grades ELA rose by 4 points at Manteno, compared with a 3-point state increase; math rose by 2 points, versus 1 point statewide. Science improved by 12 points in grade 5, while grade 8’s state-relative lead narrowed from 5 points to 2. In contrast, SchoolDigger’s rating fell from 4 stars and the 74th percentile in 2024–2025 to 3 stars and the 64th percentile in 2025–2026, even as ELA and math scores rose; the figures do not explain why. As context, 34% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio that year was 11.3:1. Chronic absenteeism was 15% in 2025–2026, compared with 24% statewide.
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