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Schools in Zip Code 62243

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Schools

1,514

Students

Districts

5-star school

Top rankedFreeburg Elementary School109^th of 1,126 Illinois middle schools

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Freeburg Elementary School up 138 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

Zip code 62243 has three Freeburg schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Freeburg Primary Center (244 students), Freeburg Elementary School (508) and Freeburg Community High School (689), with 1,441 students combined. The strongest academic finding is that both schools with test results exceeded state benchmarks in every reported 2025–2026 comparison, with especially large margins at the Elementary School.

Freeburg Elementary School stands out most on state comparisons: its all-grades IAR results were 21 points above the state in ELA and 22 points above in math, while its ISA results were 26 points above in grade 5 science and 22 points above in grade 8. Freeburg Community High School also surpassed the state throughout its reported tests; its strongest margins were 17 points in grade 11 ACT ELA and 15 in ACT math. Its narrowest lead was just 0.2 point in grade 9 PreACT science (47.3% versus 47.1%). SchoolDigger ranked the Elementary School at the 90th percentile and the High School at the 77th percentile. The Primary Center had the lowest chronic absenteeism, but no test results were supplied for it.

Recent trends show improvement at the Elementary School but some declines at the High School. Elementary all-grades IAR results rose 3 points in both ELA and math from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026; its math advantage over the state grew by 2 points, while its ELA lead held steady. High School ACT results fell 13 points in ELA, 5 in math and 9 in science, though they remained above state results. Context measures also vary: for 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 30% at the Primary Center, 28% at the Elementary School and 18% at the High School. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism ranged from 4% at the Primary Center to 13% at the High School, below the 24% state rate at all three schools; student-teacher ratios ranged from 13.5 to 15.2. Because the schools serve different grade spans and the Primary Center has no supplied test results, their test performance cannot be compared fairly across all three.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				PreACT Secure English Language Arts (2026)		PreACT Secure Mathematics (2026)		PreACT Secure Science (2026)		ACT English Language Arts (2026)	ACT Mathematics (2026)	ACT Science (2026)	ISA Science (2026)		IAR English Language Arts (2026)							IAR Mathematics (2026)							Vaccination (2025-26)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2026)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	PreACT Secure English Language Arts 9th Grade	PreACT Secure English Language Arts 10th Grade	PreACT Secure Mathematics 9th Grade	PreACT Secure Mathematics 10th Grade	PreACT Secure Science 9th Grade	PreACT Secure Science 10th Grade	ACT English Language Arts 11th Grade	ACT Mathematics 11th Grade	ACT Science 11th Grade	ISA Science 5th Grade	ISA Science 8th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 3rd Grade	IAR English Language Arts 4th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 5th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 6th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 7th Grade	IAR English Language Arts 8th Grade	IAR English Language Arts All Grades	IAR Mathematics 3rd Grade	IAR Mathematics 4th Grade	IAR Mathematics 5th Grade	IAR Mathematics 6th Grade	IAR Mathematics 7th Grade	IAR Mathematics 8th Grade	IAR Mathematics All Grades	Vaccination: Measles protection (all grades)	Vaccination: Exemption rate	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Freeburg Primary Center	Public	PK, KG-2	650 S State St	Freeburg	62243	St. Clair County	Freeburg CCSD 70	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(618) 539-3188	244	18	13.5	30.3%	219 (89.8%)	2 (0.8%)	14 (5.7%)	2 (0.8%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	7 (2.9%)								(n/a)																										96.9%		$14,422	$287	$14,135
Freeburg Elementary School	Public	3-8	408 S Belleville St	Freeburg	62243	St. Clair County	Freeburg CCSD 70	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(618) 539-3188	508	36	14.1	28.3%	483 (95.1%)	5 (1.0%)	14 (2.8%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (0.4%)	4 (0.8%)	86.9	109^th of 1126 public middle schools	90.3%		80.2	247^th of 1368 public middle schools	81.9%	138										73.1	73.8	50.0	77.3	71.8	93.4	77.4	88.1	77.6	58.5	81.3	42.3	68.1	52.4	65.5	61.4	99%		$13,645	$287	$13,358
Freeburg Community High School	Public	9-12	401 S Monroe St	Freeburg	62243	St. Clair County	Freeburg CHSD 77	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(618) 539-5533	689	45	15.2	18.1%	626 (90.9%)	8 (1.2%)	19 (2.8%)	10 (1.5%)	1 (0.1%)	0 (0.0%)	25 (3.6%)	71.2	140^th of 620 public high schools	77.4%		82.9	94^th of 698 public high schools	86.5%	46	65.3	57.5	55.8	40.9	47.3	54.8	66.7	54.5	54.5																	99.3%		$14,115	$278	$13,837
St Joseph Catholic School	Private, Roman Catholic	PK, KG-8	2 N Alton St	Freeburg	62243	St. Clair County		(n/a)	(n/a)	(n/a)	(n/a)	(618) 539-0393	73	9	5.1	—	44 (60.3%)	1 (1.4%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (1.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)								(n/a)

Cities Near Zip Code 62243

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Freeburg	0.45 mi	3	83^rd
Smithton	4.81 mi	1	71^st
Belleville	5.09 mi	33	542^nd
Mascoutah	6.68 mi	3	70^th
Shiloh	7.15 mi	3	126^th

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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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