Summary:
Four elementary schools serve ZIP code 41017: three offer prekindergarten through grade 5, while Beechwood Elementary School serves prekindergarten through grade 6. Across the ten grade-and-subject results shared by all four schools, their 2025–26 average was 58%, compared with 44% for the matching state results, though performance varied widely from school to school. The clearest overall finding is that Beechwood led the group, averaging 69% across those results.
Beechwood had the highest average, followed by R C Hinsdale Elementary School at 61%, James A Caywood Elementary School at 56%, and River Ridge Elementary School at 45%. Each school’s average was above its matched state results, but the margin ranged from 1 point at River Ridge to 25 points at Beechwood. Hinsdale stands out in early grades, leading grade 3 math at 71% and reading at 77%, as well as grade 4 math and science. Beechwood led five grade 5 results, including writing, where its 86% was 54 points above Hinsdale’s 32%—the widest school-to-school gap among the listed results.
Scores moved in different directions between 2024–25 and 2025–26: Caywood’s average rose 3 points and Beechwood’s rose 2, while River Ridge fell 1 point and Hinsdale fell 1. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking also declined for River Ridge, from 78 to 51 between 2023–24 and 2025–26; Hinsdale fell from 93 to 86, while Caywood rose from 74 to 79 and Beechwood stayed at 93. As context, all four schools report free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–25: 8% at Beechwood, 28% at Hinsdale, 55% at River Ridge, and 58% at Caywood. Caywood and River Ridge have similar student–teacher ratios, 14.9 and 14.7, yet their average scores differ by 11 points; these figures describe the schools but do not explain their results.
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