Schools in Zip Code 61568

Schools in zip code 61568 include three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Tremont Elementary School (304 students), Tremont Middle School (291), and Tremont High School (288). The clearest overall strength is that both elementary and middle school are above the state on all-grades results, and high school is above state on every listed ACT and PreACT measure.

Tremont Middle School leads the comparable all-grades results, with 73% proficient in ELA and 49% in math—11 and 2 points above Tremont Elementary School, respectively. Tremont High School also stands out against its own state benchmarks: its listed advantages range from 8 points in 11th-grade ACT math to 22 points in ninth-grade PreACT science. Elementary’s all-grades results are above state, but its third-grade results are the area’s clearest weak spot: 4 points below state in ELA and 5 below in math. Fourth grade is much stronger, at 20 points above state in ELA and 8 above in math.

Recent results are mixed rather than uniformly rising: the two IAR schools’ average lead over state narrowed from 18 to 11 points in ELA and from 13 to 8 in math. At high school, ninth-grade PreACT results rose by 10 to 16 points across subjects, while tenth-grade ELA fell 10 points and science fell 3; math rose 16. SchoolDigger ranks high school at the 88th percentile, middle at the 74th, and elementary at the 52nd; elementary and middle each fell from the prior year, while high school rose slightly. Student-teacher ratios are 11.7 at high school, 15.6 at middle, and 15.9 at elementary. As context, all three reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025: 18% at high school, 19% at middle, and 25% at elementary.