Summary:
Zip code 62881 has one middle school, Franklin Park Middle School, serving grades 4–8 and enrolling 528 students. Because it is the only school in the list, there is no local school-to-school comparison; the most important finding is its sharply different performance by subject: ELA is well above the state rate, while math is below it.
Franklin Park stands out most positively in ELA: in 2025–2026, 70% of students met the standard, compared with 56% statewide, a 14-point advantage. Math is the clearest concern: 27% met the standard, versus 40% statewide, a 12-point shortfall. The subject gap is especially visible in grade 6 math, where the school was 20 points below the state; grade 5 math has no state comparison because the result was suppressed. Science was above state rates in both reported grades: by 3 points in grade 5 and 10 points in grade 8. Chronic absenteeism was 19%, 5 points below the state rate, but 1 point above the district rate.
Recent results show ELA improving while math slipped: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose 4 points and its state advantage grew slightly, while math fell 1 point and its state shortfall widened by 2 points. Science improved substantially in grade 5, rising from 30% to 51%, but dipped from 63% to 62% in grade 8 as the school’s advantage over the state narrowed. SchoolDigger’s ranking fell from the 77th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 61st in 2025–2026, and its rating dropped from 4 stars to 3; the ranking uses a different number of schools in different years. Other context: the student-teacher ratio was 12.2 in 2024–2025, and 55% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year.
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