Summary:
The 61018 zip code in Illinois is home to two schools: Dakota Elementary School and Dakota Junior Senior High School, both part of the Dakota CUSD 201 district. While both schools have respectable performance, the data shows that the high school is the standout, ranking in the top 21% of Illinois high schools.
Dakota Junior Senior High School boasts a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger, with strong test scores, a high 89% graduation rate, and low 2.4% dropout rate. In contrast, while Dakota Elementary School has decent performance, it ranks in the middle of Illinois elementary schools and has test scores generally below district and state averages, except for 6th grade English Language Arts.
Both schools face challenges, such as relatively high chronic absenteeism rates of 25.4%. The elementary school also has a higher free/reduced lunch rate of 41.13% compared to 33.24% at the high school, indicating a greater concentration of economically disadvantaged students. Interestingly, the high school spends more per student ($15,051) than the elementary school ($13,179), despite having similar student-teacher ratios of around 13 to 1.
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