Summary:
The 62640 middle-school list contains one school, North Mac Middle School, serving grades 6–8, so families have no other school in this ZIP-code list to compare it with. In 2025–2026, its results were below Illinois in every reported subject: all-grades ELA was 40% versus 56% statewide, all-grades math was 16% versus 40%, and eighth-grade science was 26% versus 52%. The largest listed gap was in eighth-grade science, at 26 percentage points, making performance below the state across subjects the most important finding.
North Mac Middle School is the only school represented, so it is both the list’s highest and lowest by default—not a meaningful area leader or trailer. Its ELA results varied by grade: sixth grade was 55% versus 59% statewide, while seventh grade was 28% versus 58% and eighth grade was 38% versus 63%. The school was slightly above North Mac CUSD 34 in all-grades ELA (40% versus 39%), below the district in math (16% versus 21%), and tied with the district in eighth-grade science (26%). Chronic absenteeism was 29%, compared with 25% for the district and 24% for the state. Because the list includes one school, it cannot show how schools in the ZIP code compare with one another.
Recent results moved in different directions by subject: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA fell 6 percentage points, from 46% to 40%, while its gap with the state widened by 9 points. Math rose 3 points, from 14% to 16%, and eighth-grade science rose 9 points, from 17% to 26%; their state gaps narrowed by 1 and 3 points, respectively. SchoolDigger’s reported percentile ranking also declined, from 38th in 2023–2024 to 31st in 2024–2025 and 12th in 2025–2026; these are rankings, not test-score percentages. In 2024–2025, the school had 228 students, an 11.6:1 student-teacher ratio, and 54% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible.
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