Summary:
ZIP code 60968 has one elementary school: Iroquois West Elementary School/Thawville, serving grades 4–5 with 104 students. In the latest results, from 2025–2026, its all-grade proficiency was above Illinois averages in both English language arts (ELA) and math, making that the clearest strength in the available school data.
There is no other school in the ZIP code to rank above or below it. Compared with the state, the school’s all-grade ELA result was 65% versus 56%, a 9-point advantage; math was 49% versus 40%, also 9 points higher. Those overall results hide a sharp grade-level difference in math: fourth grade was 19 points above the state, while fifth grade was 1 point below. ELA was above the state in both grades, by 14 points in fourth grade and 6 in fifth. Fifth-grade science was 1 point above the state in 2025–2026.
Results improved in the two years provided, with the strongest change in science: fifth-grade science rose from 31% in 2024–2025 to 49% in 2025–2026, moving from 10 points below the state to 1 point above. All-grade ELA rose by 3 points and math by 1, though the school’s advantage over the state narrowed slightly in both. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking declined from 69 in 2023–2024 to 58 in 2025–2026, while its rating stayed at 3 stars. Chronic absenteeism was 13% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 21% and state’s 24%. For context, the school’s 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 10, and 66% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. These figures describe one school and do not allow comparisons among schools within the ZIP code.
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