Summary:
Zip code 61335 has one listed school, Putnam County Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 with 162 students. With no other listed schools, families can compare its results with Illinois and with the school’s prior-year results, rather than with local peers. Its clearest current strength is ELA: in 2025–2026, proficiency across all grades was 66%, compared with 56% statewide.
Results vary by subject and grade, so there is no local top or bottom school to identify. The school’s all-grades ELA result was 10 percentage points above the state, led by grades 6 and 7, which were 9 and 16 points above; grade 8 ELA was 6 points below the state. Mathematics was 5 points below statewide overall, with grades 6 and 7 close to state results and grade 8 6 points below. Grade 8 science was the weakest current comparison: 38% of students were proficient, 14 points below the state’s 52%.
Recent changes show improvement in ELA and mathematics, but a sharp decline in grade 8 science. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grades ELA rose from 47% to 66%, while the state rate rose from 53% to 56%; the school’s relative position improved by 15 points. Mathematics increased from 27% to 34%, narrowing its gap with the state by 6 points. In contrast, grade 8 science fell from 57% to 38%, while the state rate rose from 45% to 52%. SchoolDigger gives the school 2 stars and a 47th-percentile statewide ranking for 2025–2026; its percentile history was 46, 55 and 47 over the past three years. Context measures include a student–teacher ratio of 10.1 in 2024–2025 and 38% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 23%, compared with 24% statewide and 21% in the district. There is only one listed school, so these figures cannot show how it compares with local peers.
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