Summary:
Zip code 61760 has two schools: Fieldcrest Primary School serves prekindergarten through grade 2, and Fieldcrest High School serves grades 9–12. The latest listed test results are for the high school, where grade 10 and 11 results exceeded state averages, while grade 9 results were below them in every tested subject. The most important takeaway is that results differ by grade: the strongest recent test comparisons are in grades 10 and 11, not grade 9.
Fieldcrest High School stands out for its 2025–2026 test results in grades 10 and 11: it was 7–10 percentage points above the state in grade 11 and 2–17 points above in grade 10. Its strongest comparison was grade 10 mathematics, 17 points above the state. Grade 9 was the exception, with results 6–8 points below the state across all three subjects. For attendance, Fieldcrest Primary School stands out positively: chronic absenteeism was 13%, 10 points below the state, while the high school’s 29% rate was 5 points above the state. The schools’ absenteeism rates differed by 15 points.
Recent test trends reinforce that grade-level divide: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, grade 10 mathematics rose 18 points and English Language Arts rose 12, while grade 9 science fell 19 points. SchoolDigger places the high school at the 68th percentile in 2025–2026 (rank 200 of 620), down 5 percentile points from the prior year’s 73rd percentile after rising from the 39th percentile in 2023–2024. The primary school’s supplied SchoolDigger rank history is older, so the ranks are not a current, like-for-like comparison. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were similar—54% at the high school and 56% at the primary school—while student-teacher ratios were 9.5 and 15.7, respectively. Because the schools serve different grades and only high school test scores are listed, the data cannot establish which school has stronger academics overall.
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