Summary:
ZIP code 61078 has one listed elementary school, Eastland Elementary School, serving PK–6 in Eastland CUSD 308. In 2025–2026, Eastland scored above Illinois statewide results in all three reported comparisons: all-grades ELA was 62% versus 56% statewide, a 6-point advantage; all-grades math was 56% versus 40%, a 16-point advantage; and grade 5 science was 59% versus 48%, a 12-point advantage. The clearest headline is that Eastland’s strongest state-relative result is in math, while its ELA lead is more modest.
With just one school listed, there is no local top-versus-bottom comparison. Within Eastland, results vary by grade: math’s state advantage ranges from 5 points in grade 4 to 20 points in grade 3, while ELA’s ranges from 3 points in grade 4 to 18 points in grade 6. Eastland also had a much lower chronic absenteeism rate than the state in 2025–2026: 7% compared with 24%, a 16-point difference. These figures show strengths across the reported subjects, alongside meaningful variation by grade.
Scores have declined over the past two years even as statewide results rose, narrowing Eastland’s leads. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Eastland fell 4 points in all-grades ELA and math and 9 points in grade 5 science; its advantages over the state narrowed by 8, 5 and 16 points, respectively. SchoolDigger’s ranking also moved down, from the 90th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 83rd in 2024–2025 and the 66th in 2025–2026, with its rating changing from 4 stars to 3. For context, the school had a 14.3 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025, and 47% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year.
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