Summary:
ZIP code 62010 has one middle school, Wilbur Trimpe Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 556 students in Bethalto CUSD 8. In 2025–2026, 51% of students were proficient in all-grades ELA, compared with 56% statewide; in mathematics, the figures were 30% and 40%. Grade 8 science was 40% at the school and 52% statewide. The most important finding is that the school was below the state in every listed result, with its largest gap in grade 8 ELA: 49% proficient, 14 points below the state.
ELA is the school’s strongest all-grades result relative to the state: its 5-point gap is smaller than the 10-point mathematics gap and the 12-point grade 8 science gap. Grade 6 ELA is closest to the state, at 57% versus 59% (a 2-point gap), while the grade 8 ELA gap is 14 points. Since this is the only school in the list, there is no local top-versus-bottom comparison; Wilbur Trimpe Middle School is the only school that can be identified as a standout. SchoolDigger gives it 1 star and ranks it 810th of 1,126 Illinois schools, in the 28th percentile.
Recent results show mixed progress: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grades mathematics rose 3 points and its gap with the state narrowed by 2 points, while the grade 8 science gap widened by 5 points. ELA rose 3 points, but its gap widened slightly from 4.7 to 5.0 points. As context, 47% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 14.2 that year. Chronic absenteeism was 20% in 2025–2026, 4 points above the district and 4 points below the state. Because the list has only one school, these figures cannot show how it compares with other nearby middle schools.
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