Summary:
ZIP code 62530 has one middle school, Auburn Junior High at Divernon, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 236 students. With no other middle schools in the ZIP code, families can compare its results with state and district figures, rather than with nearby schools in this list. The clearest finding is its strong English language arts (ELA) performance: in 2025–2026, 83% of students were proficient, 27 percentage points above the state.
Auburn Junior High at Divernon is the area’s only school, so there is no separate top or bottom school to identify. Its ELA result stands out against both the state and Auburn CUSD 10: proficiency was 83%, compared with 56% statewide and 71% districtwide. Math is a different picture: 39% were proficient, about level with the state’s 40% and district’s 39%. Grade-level results show a stronger math result in grade 8, which was 7 points above the state; grades 6 and 7 were each slightly below. Eighth-grade science was also essentially level with the state, at 52% for both.
Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, especially in ELA: the school rose 7 points, and its advantage over the state widened by 4 points. Its ELA lead over the district narrowed, however, from 18 points to 12. Math rose 1 point, matching the state’s increase and leaving the school about 1 point below it; science rose 7 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking percentile fell from the 76th to the 67th percentile despite the higher ELA and math results, so the ranking change is not itself evidence of lower test scores. For context, 41% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio was 11.9; chronic absenteeism was 24% in 2025–2026, close to the state’s 24% and 6 points above the district.
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