Summary:
ZIP code 61944 has two middle schools serving grades 6–8: Mayo Middle School and Crestwood Junior High School, with 375 students combined. In 2025–2026, both schools’ all-grade ELA results were well above the state’s 56%: Mayo scored 74% and Crestwood 76%. Math was more mixed: Crestwood’s 45% was above the state’s 40%, while Mayo’s 38% was slightly below. The most important finding is that neither school leads across every subject and grade: ELA is a shared strength, while math and science show distinct differences.
Crestwood stands out in all-grade ELA and math, scoring 3 percentage points higher than Mayo in ELA (76% versus 74%) and 7 points higher in math (45% versus 38%). But Mayo leads eighth-grade science: 74%, compared with Crestwood’s 54%, a 20-point gap. Grade-level results reinforce the split: Crestwood leads sixth-grade math by 25 points, while Mayo leads eighth-grade math by 8 points and seventh-grade ELA by 11 points. Seventh-grade math is close, with Crestwood ahead by 3 points.
Scores rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 at both schools in the reported comparisons, especially in science: eighth-grade science increased 26 points at Mayo and 25 at Crestwood. ELA rose 5 points at Mayo and 7 at Crestwood; math was nearly unchanged at Mayo, rising by less than a point, and increased 8 points at Crestwood. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings tell a different, longer-term story: Mayo went from 85 in 2023–2024 to 68 in 2025–2026, while Crestwood went from 82 to 69. As context, in 2024–2025 Mayo had 241 students, a 9.5 student-teacher ratio, and 56% free/reduced lunch eligible; Crestwood had 134 students, a 14.9 ratio, and 37% free/reduced lunch eligible. These measures describe different school contexts, not explanations for results.
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