Best Middle Schools in Illinois for Special Education Students

Check out our new feature available only on SchoolDigger: rankings for different groups of students in Illinois!

Every year, the Illinois State Board of Education shares test results for various student groups in each school. We use these results to find out which schools do best for each group and list them from the best to the worst.

Additionally, we also compare the performance of the subgroup to the performance of the school as a whole. This makes it easy to see if, for example, Special Education students are overperforming or underperforming their peers in each school.

JUST IN! Illinois IAR test scores and updated rankings for the 2023-24 school year were recently posted to SchoolDigger!

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School															Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2024)							Ranking (Special Education vs All Students - 2024)
ID	Rank (of 802)	School	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Disc Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel from Federal Funds	Total from Federal Funds	Personnel from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Total from State and Local Funds	Statewide Rank Percentile (Special Education)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (Special Education)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)
170993000714	1	Young Magnet High School	Public	7-12	211 S Laflin St	Chicago	60607	Cook County	Chicago Public Schools District 299	No	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	(773) 534-7500	2,148	128	16.8	36.1%	538 (25.0%)	370 (17.2%)	613 (28.5%)	521 (24.3%)	6 (0.3%)	18 (0.8%)	82 (3.8%)	$16,374			$2,084			$14,289	99.9%	99.8%	0.10%
170993004944	2	Edison Elementary Regional Gifted Center	Public	K-8	4929 N Sawyer Ave	Chicago	60625	Cook County	Chicago Public Schools District 299	No	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	(773) 534-0540	267	15	17.8	9.7%	149 (55.8%)	9 (3.4%)	30 (11.2%)	44 (16.5%)	1 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	34 (12.7%)	$17,672			$2,627			$15,045	99.8%	99.9%	0.10%
170993001153	3	Taft High School	Public	7-12	6530 W Bryn Mawr Ave	Chicago	60631	Cook County	Chicago Public Schools District 299	No	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	(773) 534-1000	4,464	269	16.5	51.2%	1,889 (42.3%)	136 (3.0%)	1,940 (43.5%)	301 (6.7%)	15 (0.3%)	30 (0.7%)	152 (3.4%)	$15,258			$2,098			$13,160	99.6%	97.7%	1.90%
170993000832	4	Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy	Public	K-8	3319 N Clifton Ave	Chicago	60657	Cook County	Chicago Public Schools District 299	No	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	(773) 534-5550	604	42	14.5	16.1%	311 (51.5%)	34 (5.6%)	128 (21.2%)	80 (13.2%)	2 (0.3%)	2 (0.3%)	47 (7.8%)	$16,594			$2,196			$14,398	99.5%	99.6%	0.13%
170993000942	5	Lane Technical High School	Public	7-12	2501 W Addison St	Chicago	60618	Cook County	Chicago Public Schools District 299	No	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	(773) 534-5400	4,496	260	17.3	35.9%	1,719 (38.2%)	290 (6.5%)	1,564 (34.8%)	482 (10.7%)	21 (0.5%)	32 (0.7%)	388 (8.6%)	$14,612			$1,956			$12,656	99.4%	99.4%	0.04%
170993006081	6	Skinner North Elementary School	Public	K-8	640 W Scott St	Chicago	60610	Cook County	Chicago Public Schools District 299	No	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	(773) 534-8500	490	33	14.8	10.2%	133 (27.1%)	24 (4.9%)	39 (8.0%)	236 (48.2%)	4 (0.8%)	1 (0.2%)	53 (10.8%)	$15,326			$2,021			$13,306	99.3%	99.3%	0.01%
173451006242	7	Thurgood Marshall School	Public	5-8	4664 N Rockton Ave	Rockford	61103	Winnebago County	Rockford School District 205	No	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	(815) 490-5400	482	26	18.3	25.1%	299 (62.0%)	21 (4.4%)	50 (10.4%)	82 (17.0%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (0.4%)	28 (5.8%)	$18,472			$609			$17,863	99.1%	99.3%	0.21%
171686001993	8	Central School	Public	5-8	620 Greenwood Ave	Glencoe	60022	Cook County	Glencoe School District 35	No	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	(847) 835-7600	568	57	9.9		467 (82.2%)	1 (0.2%)	44 (7.7%)	33 (5.8%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	22 (3.9%)	$26,861			$233			$26,628	99.0%	98.0%	0.98%
172442002649	9	Maple School	Public	6-8	2370 Shermer Rd	Northbrook	60062	Cook County	Northbrook/Glenview School District 30	No	(n/a)	(n/a)	Yes	(847) 400-8905	414	42	9.8		232 (56.0%)	5 (1.2%)	11 (2.7%)	156 (37.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	10 (2.4%)	$24,654			$450			$24,204	98.9%	99.1%	0.24%
170993001040	10	Prescott Elementary School	Public	K-8	1632 W Wrightwood Ave	Chicago	60614	Cook County	Chicago Public Schools District 299	No	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	(773) 534-5505	404	33	12.4	30.2%	175 (43.3%)	46 (11.4%)	119 (29.5%)	38 (9.4%)	2 (0.5%)	0 (0.0%)	24 (5.9%)	$19,914			$2,535			$17,379	98.8%	96.0%	2.71%

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About our rankings:

Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on IAR English Language Arts, IAR Mathematics test scores released by the Illinois State Board of Education.
These rankings were last updated on October 30, 2024, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the Illinois State Board of Education, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the Illinois State Board of Education.
For more information about our ranking process, please see our Ranking FAQ. Details about our methodology are here.

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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.