Summary:
ZIP code 61844 has one public high school, Oakwood High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 256 students. With only one school listed, there is no local school-to-school comparison. In 2025–2026, its average across reported test results was 40%, compared with 47% statewide. The clearest academic challenge is mathematics: results were 6 points below the state in grade 11, 18 points below in grade 10 and 18 points below in grade 9, averaging 14 points below statewide.
The school’s strongest state-relative result was grade 11 ACT English Language Arts (ELA), where 52% were proficient, compared with 50% statewide—a 2-point advantage. Science was closest to state results overall, averaging 2 points below across the tested grades; ELA averaged 5 points below, while math averaged 14 points below. These results make grade 11 ELA a bright spot and math the most consistent area to ask about when considering the school.
Results improved in some areas, but not across the board. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, grade 11 ACT results rose 4 points in ELA, 13 in math and 13 in science; six of the nine matched results rose. The average gap from the state narrowed by 3 points, from 10 points below to 7 below. In contrast, grade 10 PreACT ELA fell 12 points and math fell 7. SchoolDigger lists the school at 378 of 620 schools, in the 39th percentile with 2 stars, in 2025–2026; the prior year it was 399 of 698, in the 43rd percentile with 2 stars. Its 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 11.9, and 52% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. In 2025–2026, graduation was 84%, below the state’s 90% but above Oakwood CUSD 76 at 83%; chronic absenteeism was 27%, compared with 24% statewide and 20% in the district.
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