Best Public Schools in Zip Code 61482

Zip code 61482 has three schools in V I T Cusd 2, serving prekindergarten through grade 12 and enrolling 327 students: 168 at V I T Elementary School, 69 at V I T Junior High School, and 90 at V I T Senior High School. Attendance is a relative strength: chronic absenteeism was below the state’s 24% at all three schools, ranging from 13% at Junior High to 21% at Senior High. The most striking academic news is Elementary’s sharp one-year improvement, especially in math, which moved from well below the state benchmark to just above it.

V I T Elementary School stands out for its recent gains: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grades ELA proficiency increased 20 points, from 33% to 53%, and math rose 31 points, from 10% to 40%. Its latest ELA result was 3 points below the state rate, while math was about 1 point above. V I T Junior High School had a mixed profile: ELA was 58%, 1 point above the state, but math was 21%, 19 points below. Eighth-grade ELA was a bright spot at 75%, 12 points above the state, while seventh grade was 12 points below. At V I T Senior High School, ninth-grade PreACT Secure ELA was narrowly above the state rate (61.9% versus 61.5%), but tenth grade was 40% versus 54%; graduation was 82%, 7 points below the state. Because the schools serve different grades, their overall scores are not a like-for-like ranking, and current Senior High ACT results are suppressed.

Recent change is strongest at Elementary, while Junior High has moved further behind the state in math: its result slipped from 22% to 21% as the state rate rose, widening the gap from 17 to 19 points. SchoolDigger’s reported percentile rank rose from 10 to 58 for Elementary and from 38 to 45 for Junior High between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026, while Senior High fell from 52 to 43; these are different school-level ranking populations. As context, 2024–2025 student-teacher ratios were 10.6 at Elementary, 10.0 at Junior High, and 6.5 at Senior High. The share eligible for free/reduced lunch that year was 44%, 39%, and 46%, respectively; these figures describe the schools and do not explain their results.