Summary:
Zip code 62033 includes three schools in Ben-Gil Elementary School (PK–5), Gillespie Middle School (grades 6–8), and Gillespie High School (grades 9–12), with 1,095 students combined. The most important takeaway is that results vary considerably by grade and subject, rather than showing one school or level as consistently strong or weak.
Gillespie High School stands out in English: 11th-grade proficiency was 67%, 17 points above the state, and 9th-grade proficiency was 72%, 10 points above. Gillespie Middle School led in 8th-grade math at 50%, 15 points above the state, and was also above state results in 7th-grade math and 8th-grade science. Ben-Gil Elementary School had 5th-grade English 9 points above the state, but its 5th-grade math was 13 points below. The clearest low results were middle-school 7th-grade English, 20 points below the state, and Ben-Gil 5th-grade math. Because the schools serve different grades, these subject-specific results are not a like-for-like school ranking.
Recent trends favor the middle and high schools overall, while Ben-Gil’s all-grade results slipped relative to the state. High-school 11th-grade English rose 31 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, though math trends were mixed; middle-school all-grade English and math increased 8 and 5 points, while Ben-Gil’s fell 3 and 2 points. SchoolDigger’s percentile rank rose from 31 to 65 for the high school, but fell from 57 to 43 for the middle school and from 66 to 45 for Ben-Gil. Ratios are similar, ranging from 12.4 students per teacher at Ben-Gil to 13.6 at the middle school. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 66% at Ben-Gil, 63% at the middle school, and 57% at the high school; these figures provide context, not an explanation for achievement differences.
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