Summary:
Zip code 60953 has two schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Milford Grade School enrolls 354 students in PK–8, and Milford High School Campus enrolls 149 in grades 9–12, for 503 students total. Attendance and graduation results offer a contrast: chronic absenteeism in 2025–26 was 14% at the grade school and 24% at the high school, while the high school graduation rate was 97%, compared with 90% statewide. Because the schools serve different grades and report different assessments, their results do not support a fair overall ranking. The most important takeaway is that results vary substantially by grade, so a school-wide summary can hide the experience a child may have in a particular grade.
Grade 8 is a standout at the grade school: 2025–26 ELA proficiency was 79%, compared with 63% statewide, and science was 62% versus 52%. By contrast, grade 3 ELA was 30%, 17 percentage points below the state. At the high school, grade 10 stood out, with proficiency above state results in all three PreACT subjects; its strongest comparison was math at 46% versus 36%, a 9-point lead. The weakest listed comparison was grade 9 math, at 23% versus 42%, a 19-point deficit; grade 11 ACT science was also below the state, by 15 points.
Recent results moved in different directions: grade-school all-grades ELA rose from 35% to 43% between 2024–25 and 2025–26, while math edged up from 28% to 29%. High-school grade 10 PreACT results improved by 21 points in ELA, 22 in math, and 18 in science, but grade 9 results fell by 28 points in math and 33 in science. SchoolDigger statewide ranking percentiles declined over the years shown, from 39 to 18 for the grade school and from 68 to 39 for the high school. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible was 60% at the grade school and 62% at the high school; student-teacher ratios were 12.2 and 8.1, respectively. These are useful context for comparing the schools, but do not explain their different test results.
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