Schools in Zip Code 60959

Zip code 60959 has one school, Tri-Point Junior High/Elementary, serving grades 4–8 and enrolling 129 students. With no other local school to compare, its results are best understood against Illinois and across its grades and subjects. The clearest positive is mathematics: in 2025–2026, 53% of students met the standard, 13 points above the state’s 40%.

Tri-Point’s strongest reported grade-level result was fifth-grade mathematics, at 65% compared with 36% statewide, a 29-point advantage; eighth-grade ELA was also strong, at 79% versus 63%, or 16 points above the state. Results were weaker in science: fifth grade was 42% versus 48% statewide, and eighth grade was 46% versus 52%. All-grades ELA was closer to the state, at 59% versus 56%. The eighth-grade mathematics result is suppressed by the state, so it is unknown.

ELA and mathematics improved year over year: ELA rose from 50% in 2024–2025 to 59% in 2025–2026, moving from 3 points below Illinois to 3 points above; mathematics climbed from 45% to 53%, widening its state advantage from 7 to 13 points. Science went in different directions by grade: fifth-grade results fell from 72% to 42%, while eighth-grade results rose from 29% to 46%, though both were below the state in 2025–2026. SchoolDigger placed the school at the 63rd percentile in 2025–2026, up from the 51st percentile the year before. Other context includes a 9.9 student-teacher ratio and 96% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, plus chronic absenteeism of 32% versus 24% statewide in 2025–2026.