Summary:
ZIP code 62033 has one listed elementary school, Ben-Gil Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade and enrolling 523 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grade English language arts proficiency was 55%, just below the state’s 56%, and math proficiency was 38%, compared with 40% statewide; fifth-grade science was a brighter spot at 52%, versus 48% statewide. The most important concern for families is fifth-grade math: 23% of students were proficient, 13 percentage points below the state.
There is no top-versus-bottom comparison among schools in this ZIP code because Ben-Gil is the only one listed. Compared with state results, its clearest strength was fifth-grade science, where it led by 5 points; its largest shortfall was fifth-grade math, 13 points below the state. Results also vary by grade: ELA was 4 points below state levels in third grade but 3 points above in fourth and 9 points above in fifth. Math was 4 points below in third grade and 3 points above in fourth, before the substantial fifth-grade gap. These contrasts show why the all-grade averages do not describe every grade equally well.
Across the two reported years, Ben-Gil’s all-grade ELA and math shifted from above state results to slightly below: ELA’s state-relative gap moved from 6 points above in 2024–2025 to 1 point below in 2025–2026, while math moved from 2 points above to 1 point below. Science improved: fifth-grade proficiency rose from 46% to 52%, remaining above the state in both years, though its lead narrowed by about 1 point. SchoolDigger gave Ben-Gil 3 stars in 2023–2024 and 2024–2025, then 2 stars in 2025–2026; its ranking moved from 709 of 2,067 schools to 810 of 2,056 and then 964 of 1,737. Context figures include 66% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025 and a 12.4 student–teacher ratio that year. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 16%, below the district’s 21% and state’s 24%; these figures describe the school, but do not explain its test results.
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