Summary:
ZIP code 62865 has one middle school, Zeigler-Royalton Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 100 students. The most important finding is that in 2025–2026, about one-third of students were proficient in ELA and about one in eight in math—roughly 26 percentage points below Illinois in each subject.
There is no meaningful top or bottom school in this ZIP code because Zeigler-Royalton Junior High School is the only school listed. Its results were mixed against Zeigler-Royalton CUSD 188: ELA proficiency was 30.7% at the school versus 30.5% in the district, while math was 13% versus 17%, a 4-point school shortfall. Chronic absenteeism was 21.1% at the school, nearly matching the district’s 21.3% and coming in 2 points below the state’s 24%. Grade-level ELA results also differed: grade 7 was 44% proficient, compared with 31% in grade 6; grade 7 was 14 points below its state comparison, while grade 6 was 28 points below. One sentence on data limits: with just one school listed, comparisons among schools are not possible, and state-suppressed grade-level results cannot be treated as known.
Recent test trends are uneven: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, school ELA proficiency fell from 33% to 31% as the state result rose from 53% to 56%, widening the state gap from 20 to 26 points. Math improved from 11% to 13%, and its gap with the state narrowed from 27 to 26 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for the school rose from 16th in 2023–2024 to 26th in 2024–2025, after being 25th in 2022–2023; SchoolDigger gives the district a 1-star rating. As context, the school’s 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 12.5, and 63% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year.
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