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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 62082


At a glance
1
School
468
Students
Top rankedNorth Greene Elementary1248th of 1,737 Illinois elementary schools
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Biggest riser
North Greene Elementary up 130 spots statewide this year
Summary:

Zip code 62082 has one listed school, North Greene Elementary, a PK–6 school in Roodhouse with 468 students. Its 2025–26 results show a mixed picture: grade 5 science was close to the state, while all-grades English language arts (ELA) and math were below it. The clearest academic concern is math, with 23% proficient at the school compared with 40% statewide, a 16-point gap.

There is no second school in the list to compare as a leader or trailer; within North Greene Elementary, results varied by grade. Grade 5 science was closest to the state, at 47% versus 48%, about 1 point apart. Grade 6 ELA was 53% versus 59%, a 5-point gap. Grade 3 stood out for larger shortfalls: ELA was 22% versus 48%, 25 points below the state, and math was 21% versus 49%, a 29-point gap. Grade 5 math was closer, at 33% versus 36%, a 3-point gap. The grade 4 math school result was suppressed, so no comparison is available.

Results improved in ELA and science but declined in math. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, all-grades ELA rose 10 points to 44%, narrowing its state gap by 7 points; grade 5 science rose 9 points to 47%, leaving it about 1 point below the state. Math fell 3 points to 23%, and its state gap widened by 4 points. SchoolDigger ranks the school 1,248th of 1,737 statewide, at the 28th percentile with 1 star in 2025–26; its percentile rank was 34th in 2023–24 and 33rd in 2024–25. Other context: the student–teacher ratio was 13.5 in 2024–25, and 52% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 17% in 2025–26, below the district’s 26% and the state’s 24%.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education.

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