Summary:
Zip code 61864 has one listed school, Unity East, an elementary school serving prekindergarten through fifth grade with 241 students. Compared with Tolono CUSD 7, its 2025–26 results were higher in all three reported measures: all-grades ELA was 70% versus 67%, math was 57% versus 41%, and fifth-grade science was 70% versus 66%. The clearest overall takeaway is that Unity East exceeded statewide results in each of these measures, by 14 points in ELA, 17 in math, and 23 in fifth-grade science.
There is no meaningful local top-to-bottom comparison because Unity East is the only school listed; it is both the area’s highest and lowest by default. Its grade-level results show where performance varies: ELA proficiency rose from 52% in third grade to 71% in fourth and 80% in fifth, while math fell from 69% in third to 57% in fourth and 48% in fifth. Those results were above state rates at each grade, although fifth-grade math was 1 point below the district. Attendance is another bright spot: chronic absenteeism was 9% at Unity East in 2025–26, compared with 16% in the district and 24% statewide.
Unity East’s statewide test-score lead narrowed from 2024–25 to 2025–26, even though it remained ahead: ELA rose 2 points at the school while the state gained 3, reducing the gap by 1 point; math fell 5 points while the state rose 1, narrowing the lead by 6 points; and fifth-grade science rose 1 point while the state gained 7, narrowing the lead by 6 points. SchoolDigger gives Unity East four stars and a 75th-percentile statewide rank for 2025–26, down 11 percentile points from 2023–24. Context figures include an 11.7 student–teacher ratio and 20% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. These figures describe the school, but the one-school list does not support comparisons with local peers.
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