Summary:
Zip code 61362 has one elementary school, John F Kennedy Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 in Spring Valley CCSD 99. It enrolls 632 students, and its student-teacher ratio was 12.8 in 2024–2025. In 2025–2026, its all-grades ELA proficiency was 43%, compared with 56% statewide, while math proficiency was 19%, compared with 40% statewide. The most important finding is that results were below Illinois in both subjects, with the larger shortfall in math: 21 points below the state, versus 14 points in ELA.
Within the school, ELA results varied substantially by grade: grade 7 was strongest at 68%, 10 points above the state rate, while grade 4 was weakest at 17%, 38 points below the state. Grades 7 and 8 were above state ELA rates; grades 3–6 were below. The difference between the highest and lowest school results was 50 points. Math results for grades 4–6 were suppressed by the state; among the reported grades, proficiency ranged from 18% in grade 8 to 38% in grade 3. With just one school in the ZIP-code list, there are no local school-to-school comparisons.
Recent results show mixed progress: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA proficiency rose 4 points and its gap with Illinois narrowed by 1 point, while math proficiency fell 4 points and its gap widened by 5 points. Science also differed by grade: grade 5 proficiency rose 18 points, narrowing its gap with the state by 11 points, while grade 8 fell 3 points and its state gap worsened by 9 points. SchoolDigger rated the school at the 13th percentile and one star in 2025–2026; its percentiles were 24 in 2023–2024 and 32 in 2024–2025. As context, 61% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025, and chronic absenteeism was 17%, below the state’s 24%.
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