Schools in Zip Code 61006

Zip code 61006 has one listed school, Ashton-Franklin Center High School, serving grades 7–12. The most important finding is that results are uneven across subjects: in 2025–2026, all-grades IAR English language arts was 68%, 12 percentage points above the state, while mathematics was 36%, 3 points below the state.

Ashton-Franklin Center stands out positively in some grade-and-test results, but no other local school is listed as a comparison. Its eighth-grade IAR ELA result was 86%, 23 points above the state, and eighth-grade ISA science was 72%, 20 points above. Results were weaker in other tests: ninth-grade PreACT Secure ELA was 43%, 18 points below the state, and eleventh-grade ACT mathematics was 31%, 9 points below. Science also varied by grade: eleventh-grade ACT science was 8 points above the state, while ninth-grade PreACT Secure science was 9 points below.

Recent results and SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking history point to a mixed picture. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grades IAR ELA rose from 67% to 68%, though its advantage over the state narrowed from 14 to 12 points; mathematics fell from 43% to 36%, moving from 5 points above the state to 3 below. SchoolDigger’s reported percentile declined from 79th in 2023–2024 to 51st in 2025–2026, a drop of 28 percentile points. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 12.7 in 2024–2025, and 52% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures provide context, not an explanation for achievement. In 2025–2026, graduation was 79%, matching the district but 11 points below the state, while chronic absenteeism was 16%—4 points above the district and 7 below the state.