Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 62670

ZIP code 62670 has one elementary school, New Berlin Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 with 452 students. With no other elementary schools in the ZIP code, the clearest comparisons are with Illinois and the school’s results over time. In 2025–2026, New Berlin was above the state in both all-grades ELA and math, and its most important overall finding is that its ELA proficiency was 17 percentage points higher than Illinois’s.

There is no local top-to-bottom school comparison because New Berlin is the only school listed. Its strongest relative results were in fifth-grade ELA, with 88% proficient compared with 55% statewide, and fifth-grade science, with 75% compared with 48%. The school was also above the state in all-grades math (50% versus 40%). Fourth-grade math was the exception: 36% were proficient, 6 percentage points below the state’s 42%. All-grades ELA and math were also above results in New Berlin CUSD 16 by 2 and 2 percentage points, respectively.

Results changed differently by subject: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grades ELA rose 7 percentage points, while math fell 4 points; fifth-grade science rose 16 points. The state’s ELA and science results also increased, but its math result rose while New Berlin’s fell. SchoolDigger rated New Berlin four stars in each of the last three years; its rankings were 509 of 1,737 in 2025–2026, 498 of 2,056 in 2024–2025, and 592 of 2,067 in 2023–2024. The school’s reported chronic absenteeism was 9% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 13% and the state’s 24%. Other context: the student–teacher ratio was 13.2 in 2024–2025, and 30% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year.