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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 62823


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2
Schools
219
Students
Top rankedCisne Middle School330th of 1,126 Illinois middle schools
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Biggest riser
Cisne Middle School up 114 spots statewide this year
Summary:

Zip code 62823 has two schools: Cisne Middle School, serving grades 5–8, and Cisne High School, serving grades 9–12. The schools enroll 115 and 104 students, respectively, and their results show different strengths by grade and subject. The clearest current standout is Cisne Middle’s seventh-grade math, where 72% were proficient compared with 40% statewide.

Cisne Middle School has the strongest reported current results overall, particularly in ELA and seventh-grade math: its all-grades ELA proficiency was 70%, 13 percentage points above the state’s 56%, while seventh-grade math was 72%, 32 points above the state’s 40%. Its all-grades math result was closer to the state, at 42% versus 40%. Cisne High School has a more mixed picture: ninth-grade ELA matched the state at 62%, and tenth-grade ELA was 55%, 1 point above the state, but ninth-grade science was 39%, 9 points below. In the previous year’s eleventh-grade ACT results, math was also a notable weakness at 17% versus 39% statewide, while ELA and science were above state rates.

Results improved on several repeated measures, though not all: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Middle’s all-grades ELA rose 9 points and math rose 10 points; at High, ninth-grade ELA increased 2 points and tenth-grade ELA 3 points, while ninth-grade science fell 2 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose from 63 to 71 for Middle and from 48 to 55 for High. Both schools also report lower chronic absenteeism than the state: 6% at Middle and 7% at High, compared with 24% statewide; High’s graduation rate was 91%, versus 90% statewide. As context, for 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible students were 41% at Middle and 44% at High; student-teacher ratios were 10.7 and 7.2, respectively. Because the schools serve different grades and have different available results, these figures do not provide a like-for-like school ranking.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education.

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