Best Public Schools in Zip Code 61329

Zip code 61329 has one school, Ladd Community Cons School, serving prekindergarten through eighth grade in Ladd CCSD 94. It enrolled 183 students, and its student-teacher ratio was 11.1 in 2024–2025. In the latest results, from 2025–2026, Ladd was slightly above Illinois in both all-grade subjects: ELA was 58% versus 56% statewide, and math was 42% versus 40%. The most important finding is that Ladd improved from below the state in both subjects the previous year to above it in the latest year.

Because Ladd is the only school in the area list, there is no meaningful local top-or-bottom school comparison. Its strongest reported grade-level results were 4th-grade math, at 75% compared with 42% statewide, and 7th-grade ELA, at 83% compared with 58%; 8th-grade ELA was also strong, at 79% versus 63%. Eighth-grade science reached 68%, 17 percentage points above the state. Chronic absenteeism was 12% at Ladd, compared with 24% statewide. These are notable results, though they do not show that every grade or subject performs similarly.

Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: all-grade ELA rose 7 points and math rose 6 points, while the state-relative gaps shifted from 2 points below the state to 2 points above in each subject. Eighth-grade science had the sharpest turnaround, rising 40 points, from 29% to 68%, while the state increased 7 points. Separately, SchoolDigger rated Ladd at the 55th percentile with 3 stars in 2024–2025, down from the 61st percentile the year before; it had 3 stars in each of those three ranking years. In 2024–2025, 53% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. Several grade-level school results are suppressed, so those results are unknown, not zero.