Summary:
ZIP code 62560 has one middle school, Lincolnwood Junior High School, serving grades 6–8, so families are looking at one local option rather than choosing among several schools. In 2025–2026, its all-grades English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency was 65%, compared with 56% statewide, while math proficiency was 31%, compared with 40% statewide; eighth-grade science was essentially level with the state, at 52% versus 52%. The most important finding is that Lincolnwood’s latest results were notably stronger in ELA than in math, with ELA above the state and math below it.
With no other school in the ZIP code for comparison, Lincolnwood is the area’s only school; its strongest state-relative result was ELA, and its weakest was all-grades math. ELA was 9 percentage points above the state, while math was 8 points below; science was nearly even. Grade-level results show that the overall ELA figure hides variation: grade 6 was 5 points below its state comparison, while grades 7 and 8 were 10 and 11 points above, respectively. Grade 6 math was a bright spot at 54%, 18 points above the state’s 36%, but the state suppressed grades 7 and 8 math results, so those figures are unknown. Chronic absenteeism was also lower than comparison rates in 2025–2026: 5% at Lincolnwood versus 13% in Panhandle CUSD 2 and 24% statewide.
Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in all three subjects, though math remained below the state. ELA rose from 43% to 65%, moving from 10 points below the state to 9 points above; math increased from 24% to 31%, narrowing its state gap from 14 points to 8. Eighth-grade science rose from 40% to 52%, shifting from 5 points below the state to essentially even. SchoolDigger’s ranking improved from the 44th percentile in 2024–2025 to the 64th percentile in 2025–2026, and it awarded the school 3 stars in the latest year. For added context, 2024–2025 enrollment was 90, the student–teacher ratio was 10.5, and 40% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible; these figures describe the school but do not explain its results.
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