Summary:
ZIP code 61844 has one high school, Oakwood High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 256 students. In 2025–26, its grade-11 ACT ELA result was 2 points above the state, while mathematics was 6 points below; its graduation rate was 84%, compared with 90% statewide. With no other high schools listed for comparison, the clearest finding for families is that mathematics is the school’s most persistent gap with state results.
Oakwood is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this one-school group by default, so that does not show how it compares with nearby schools. Its strongest current result relative to the state was grade-11 ACT ELA, at 52% versus 50%; ACT science was nearly even, 48% versus 48%, with the school 0.2 points below. The largest gaps were in PreACT mathematics: grade 9 and grade 10 were each about 18 points below the state. Graduation was 1 point above the district’s 83% at Oakwood CUSD 76, but 6 points below the state; chronic absenteeism was 8 points above the district and 4 points above the state.
Results have improved in some areas, but not consistently across grades and tests. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, grade-11 ACT results rose 4 points in ELA, 13 in mathematics, and 13 in science. By contrast, grade-10 PreACT ELA fell 12 points and mathematics fell 7; across all three grades, the average science gap with the state narrowed from 9 points to 2, while mathematics remained 14 points below on average. SchoolDigger’s ranking also moved down, from the 58th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–24 to the 39th percentile and 2 stars in 2025–26. Context measures reported for 2024–25 were a student-teacher ratio of 11.9 and 52% free/reduced lunch eligible; these are observations, not explanations for results.
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