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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 61201


At a glance
12
Schools
5,628
Students
Top rankedEugene Field Elementary School1051st of 1,737 Illinois elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Rock Island Academy up 250 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Earl H Hanson Elementary School 7.3 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
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3 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
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Summary:

ZIP code 61201 has 11 schools—eight elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school—with results that vary considerably by grade band and subject. In 2025–26, elementary schools averaged 31% in all-grades ELA and 24% in math, compared with state rates of 56% and 40%; middle schools averaged 40% in ELA and 19% in math. The most important finding is the wide spread among elementary schools: all-grades ELA ranged from 15% to 51%, and reported math scores ranged from 7% to 42%.

Eugene Field Elementary School led elementary schools in all-grades ELA and math, with 51% and 42% proficiency—24 and 21 points above the average of other elementary schools with reported scores. It was still 5 points below the state in ELA, but 2 points above in math. Denkmann Elementary School led fifth-grade science at 53%, 6 points above the state; Ridgewood Elementary School led sixth-grade math at 41%, 5 points above the state. At the other end, Longfellow Elementary School had the lowest reported elementary ELA score, 15%, while Rock Island Academy had the lowest reported elementary math score, 7%. Among middle schools, Washington Junior High School led ELA by 11 points; Edison Junior High School led math by less than 1 point.

Recent trends differ by school level: elementary averages slipped in math and were essentially flat in ELA, while middle-school averages rose 8 points in ELA and 3 in math from 2024–25 to 2025–26. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Eugene Field fell from 60th in 2023–24 to 39th in 2025–26 even as its ELA score rose from 50% to 51%, showing that rankings and year-to-year scores can move differently. Context measures also vary: in 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 54% at Eugene Field and 96% at Rock Island Academy; Eugene Field had a 19.6:1 student-teacher ratio, while Earl H Hanson Elementary School had the lowest reported ratio, 7.3:1. Rock Island High School’s 2025–26 ACT proficiency was 24% in ELA, 17% in math and 28% in science, each well below the state.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education.

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