Summary:
ZIP code 62024 has two schools: Eastwood Elementary School serves kindergarten through grade 5, and East Alton Middle School serves grades 6–8; they enroll 393 and 193 students, respectively. Both schools’ 2025–2026 all-grades proficiency results fall below state rates. ELA proficiency was 36% at Eastwood and 48% at East Alton Middle, compared with 56% statewide. Math was 18% and 21%, respectively, versus 40% statewide. The clearest shared concern is math: both schools’ all-grades results were about 19–22 percentage points below the state.
East Alton Middle had the higher reported all-grades results in 2025–2026: its ELA rate was 12 percentage points above Eastwood’s, and its math rate was 3 points higher. These are school-summary differences, not same-grade comparisons, because the schools serve different grades. Eastwood was further below the state in ELA, with a 21-point gap compared with 8 points at the middle school; both were about 19–22 points below the state in math. SchoolDigger rated each school one star that year and placed East Alton Middle at the 23rd percentile (870 of 1,126 schools) and Eastwood at the 10th percentile (1,559 of 1,737).
ELA results improved at both schools from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, rising about 5 percentage points at each, while the state rate rose about 3 points. Math showed a weaker pattern: Eastwood was nearly unchanged, East Alton Middle fell 3 points, and the state rose 1 point. SchoolDigger’s percentiles declined over the three reported years: 19 points for Eastwood and 23 for East Alton Middle, despite the latest ELA gains. For context, in 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios were similar—10.5 at Eastwood and 10.8 at the middle school—and free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 41% and 51%. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 35% and 38%, both above the 24% state rate.
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