Best Public Schools in Zip Code 61061

Zip code 61061 has two public schools in Oregon CUSD 220, serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Oregon Elementary School serves PK–6, and Oregon Junior/Senior High School serves grades 7–12. Both schools’ 2025–2026 all-grades IAR English language arts results were above the state result, but their math results point in opposite directions. The clearest difference for families is math: elementary was above the state overall, while the junior/senior high was below it.

Oregon Junior/Senior High stands out in all-grades ELA, with 65% proficiency compared with 59% at the elementary school and 56% statewide. In math, the elementary school led: 49% versus 30% at the junior/senior high and 40% statewide—a 19-point spread between the schools. Grade-level results add important detail: elementary math was above state in grades 3–5 but below it in grade 6; junior/senior high math was below state in both reported grades, 7 and 8. Science was above state at both schools in the reported grades, though the comparison is between fifth grade at the elementary school (59% versus 48% statewide) and eighth grade at the junior/senior high (53% versus 52%). The junior/senior high also combines a 96% graduation rate with 27% chronic absenteeism, above the state’s 24%; elementary chronic absenteeism was 15%.

ELA proficiency fell from the prior year at both schools: by 5 percentage points at the elementary school and 7 at the junior/senior high, even as the state result rose by 3 points. Elementary fifth-grade science improved from 46% to 59%, while eighth-grade science at the junior/senior high slipped from 56% to 53%. SchoolDigger gives both schools three stars and nearly identical current rankings: the elementary school is in the 58th percentile, and the junior/senior high is in the 59th; the elementary school’s ranking fell from the 75th percentile in 2023–2024. Context measures are similar: the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 51% at the elementary school and 49% at the junior/senior high, and student-teacher ratios were 14.8 and 14.4, respectively.