Summary:
Zip code 61024 has one middle school, Durand Junior High School, serving grades 7–8 and enrolling 58 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades ELA result was 66%, compared with 56% statewide, while its math result was 26%, compared with 40% statewide; eighth-grade science was 36%, versus 52% statewide. The clearest takeaway is that ELA is the school’s strongest subject relative to Illinois, while math and science are notable weak spots.
There are no other schools in this list to compare with Durand Junior High School, so it cannot be called the area’s top or bottom school. Compared with the state, though, its 2025–2026 ELA results were stronger in both grades reported: seventh grade was 63% versus 58%, and eighth grade was 69% versus 63%, a lead of about 6 points in each grade. The gaps went the other way in the other reported subjects: all-grades math was 14 points below the state, and eighth-grade science was 16 points below. Seventh-grade math was also 13 points below the state. These subject differences are the most useful performance contrast for families considering the school.
Results changed unevenly over time. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grades ELA rose 16 points, from 50% to 66%, moving from 3 points below the state to 9 points above it. Math rose 5 points, but remained 14 points below the state; eighth-grade science fell 15 points, and its state gap worsened by 21 points. SchoolDigger ranks the school at the 41st percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026, down 9 percentile points from the prior year; the ranking’s decline contrasts with the recent ELA increase. Other context includes a 7.9 student-teacher ratio and 48% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 15% in 2025–2026, below the state’s 24% but 3 points above Durand CUSD 322. Because the list contains only one school, it cannot show how schools in the area compare with one another.
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