Summary:
ZIP code 60968 has one listed school, Iroquois West Elementary School/Thawville, serving grades 4–5 with 104 students in Iroquois West CUSD 10. Its strongest overall finding is that 2025–2026 proficiency was above Illinois results in both all-grades subjects: 65% in ELA versus 56% statewide, and 49% in math versus 40%.
There is no within-ZIP ranking with just one school, but its grade-level results show where it stands out and where it does not. Fourth-grade math was a particular strength at 61%, 19 percentage points above the state’s 42%; fifth-grade math was 35%, about 1 point below the state’s 36%. ELA was above state results in both grades: fourth grade was 69% versus 56%, and fifth grade was 61% versus 55%. Fifth-grade science was 49%, about 1 point above the state’s 48%. The school also exceeded district results in all-grades ELA and math by about 3 and 1 points, respectively. Its fourth-grade math advantage contrasts with a 26-point drop between its fourth- and fifth-grade results.
Scores rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with science showing the biggest change: fifth-grade science increased 18 points, from 31% to 49%, moving from 10 points below the state to 1 point above. ELA rose about 3 points and math about 1 point, though the school’s leads over the state narrowed slightly. Chronic absenteeism was 13% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 21% and the state’s 24%. SchoolDigger’s school percentile declined from 69 in 2023–2024 to 58 in 2025–2026; its district figures are 2 stars and rank 473 of 738. As context, the school’s 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 10, and 66% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. These figures describe one school and do not allow comparisons with other schools in the ZIP code.
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