Summary:
ZIP code 61250 has one middle school, Erie Middle School, serving grades 5–8 and enrolling 171 students. With no other middle schools in this list, families can compare Erie’s results with state figures, but not with another local school. Erie’s clearest strength is mathematics: its 2025–2026 all-grades proficiency rate was 56%, compared with 40% statewide.
Because Erie is the only school listed, there is no local top or bottom school; its standout results are in comparison with Illinois. In 2025–2026, Erie was 7 percentage points above the state in all-grades ELA (64% versus 56%) and 16 points above in math. Its math results exceeded state rates in every grade, by 13 to 30 points. ELA was above the state in grades 5–7, by 3 to 10 points, but grade 8 was 1 point below (63% versus 63%). Science was also above state rates in both reported grades: by 6 points in grade 5 and 16 points in grade 8.
Math’s advantage over the state grew, while Erie’s ELA lead narrowed. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Erie’s math proficiency rose from 47% to 56%, and its lead widened from 9 to 16 points; ELA rose from 63% to 64%, while its lead narrowed from 10 to 7 points. SchoolDigger gives Erie four stars; its reported statewide percentile declined from the 82nd to the 73rd across the three ranking years shown, while its latest district standing is 210 of 738, or the 72nd percentile. Context figures include an 8.8 student-teacher ratio and 34% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 8%, compared with 11% in Erie CUSD 1 and 24% statewide.
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