Summary:
Zip code 62274 has four schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Pinckneyville Elementary School (PK–4), Pinckneyville Middle School (grades 5–8), Community Cons School (PK–8), and Pinckneyville Community High School (grades 9–12). Together they enroll 1,116 students, and achievement results vary by school, grade, and subject. The clearest standout is Pinckneyville Middle: its 2025–26 ELA proficiency exceeded the state rate in all four reported grades, by 9 to 30 percentage points.
On 2025–26 all-grades IAR results, Pinckneyville Middle had the strongest ELA result at 78%, 21 points above the state; Community Cons was lowest at 50%, 7 points below. In math, Pinckneyville Elementary led at 54%, 14 points above the state, while Community Cons was at 32%, 8 points below. Community Cons nevertheless led Pinckneyville Elementary in shared grade 3 results: 67% versus 62% in ELA and 67% versus 58% in math; it also led in grade 4 ELA, 64% to 57%. Because the schools cover different grade spans, their all-grades IAR rates are not a direct apples-to-apples ranking.
High-school ACT results improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26: 11th-grade ELA rose 17 points and science 15 points, though 9th-grade PreACT math moved the other way, falling 10 points and shifting from 6 points above the state to 8 below. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking rose from 45 to 76 for Community Cons, while Pinckneyville Elementary’s fell from 70 to 59 and Pinckneyville Middle’s from 87 to 83. Student-teacher ratios ranged from 12.8 at Pinckneyville Middle to 16.6 at Community Cons. The schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible rates for 2024–25 ranging from 36% at Community Cons to 44% at Pinckneyville Middle; these figures provide context, not an explanation for achievement results.
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