Summary:
Three public schools serve ZIP code 61873 across PK–12: St Joseph Elementary (PK–4), St Joseph Middle (5–8), and St Joseph-Ogden High (9–12). The schools’ reported results show different subject strengths, and recent high-school test trends are less favorable than those at the lower grades. The most important area-wide finding is that every latest reported test result is above its matching state result, though the advantage ranges from substantial to less than 1 point.
St Joseph Elementary has the largest state-relative advantage among the all-grades IAR results in math: 78% proficient versus 40% statewide, a 38-point gap. St Joseph Middle leads its all-grades IAR results in ELA, with 88% versus 56% statewide, a 32-point advantage; its science results are also strong, with 65% proficient in grade 5 and 74% in grade 8. St Joseph-Ogden High is above the state in its reported tests, but its margins are smaller: 11th-grade ACT math is 54% versus 40%, while 10th-grade PreACT Secure science is 49% versus 48%, less than a 1-point edge. Since the schools serve different grades and use different assessments, these figures do not establish one overall achievement leader.
Recent trends make the high school a point to watch: from the prior reported year, its 11th-grade ACT results fell 2 points in ELA, 15 in math, and 7 in science; its 9th-grade PreACT results also fell, while 10th-grade science rose 3 points. By comparison, elementary ELA rose 10 points, middle ELA rose 5, and middle science increased in both tested grades. SchoolDigger ranks the middle school highest at the 94th percentile (5 stars), followed by the elementary school at the 92nd percentile (5 stars) and the high school at the 79th percentile (4 stars). Reported student-teacher ratios are 14.9, 13.7, and 13.2, respectively. Free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 20% at the elementary school and 19% at the middle school in 2024–25; the high school’s 5% figure is from 2021–22, so it is not a current like-for-like comparison.
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