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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 61265


At a glance
14
Schools
6,799
Students
2
Districts
Top rankedJane Addams Elementary School718th of 1,737 Illinois elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Hamilton Elementary School up 245 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Roosevelt Elementary School 12.8 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
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4 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
Summary:

Zip code 61265 has 12 schools serving elementary through high school: nine elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school, with enrollments ranging from 173 to 2,195. Overall, elementary schools average 39% proficient in ELA and 35% in math, compared with state results of 56% and 40%; middle-school averages are 43% in ELA and 23% in math. The clearest takeaway is how sharply elementary results vary: ELA spans 47 percentage points, from 14% to 61%.

Hamilton Elementary School leads elementary ELA at 61%, 5 points above the state, while Jane Addams Elementary School leads math at 54%, 15 points above the state, and also scores 56% in ELA. At the other end, Lincoln-Irving Elementary School scores 14% in ELA and 14% in math. Among the middle schools, Woodrow Wilson Middle School is ahead of John Deere Middle School by 10 points in ELA and 6 in math. Moline Senior High School scores below state results in all three reported ACT subjects, by 8 points in ELA, 9 in math and 9 in science.

Results improved overall from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, but elementary ELA moved only slightly closer to the state: its average rose 3 points while the state result rose 3 points, leaving a 17-point gap. Elementary math rose 2 points, narrowing its state gap from 5 points to 4. Logan Elementary School was an exception in ELA, declining 8 points. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 elementary rankings place Jane Addams at the top locally, at the 59th percentile, followed by Hamilton at the 55th; these are relative rankings, not proficiency scores. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch-eligible shares were 46% at Jane Addams and 60% at Hamilton, while Lincoln-Irving’s was 88%; those figures describe the schools and do not explain their results.

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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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