The top reported proficiency rate is 81% in English language arts. The lowest is 57% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Edison Middle School
Edison Middle School serves students in grades six through eight in Wheaton, a residential suburb west of Chicago. The school enrolls roughly mid-sized cohorts for the grade band, distributed fairly evenly across the three grades. The enrollment is predominantly white, with smaller shares of Asian, Hispanic, Black, and other students represented.
On state assessments administered in 2024-25, Edison shows a mixed profile. In English language arts, the school demonstrates solid strength. Sixth-grade students reached proficiency at a high rate, and seventh and eighth graders performed even stronger, with the eighth-grade cohort achieving proficiency in particularly large numbers. These results place the school well above typical performance in this subject across the grade span.
Mathematics presents a different picture. Sixth graders showed proficiency at rates around the midpoint for state schools, but eighth graders fell notably below, with less than half achieving proficiency. The seventh-grade cohort fell between the two. This represents a decline in math performance as students move through the middle grades, a pattern parents may want to understand more fully by talking with the school about curriculum sequencing, support, and student placement. Science proficiency data were not available for the tested grades, except for a single eighth-grade result showing proficiency around the mid-range.
The school's overall proficiency rate across tested subjects and grades sits above the midpoint among DuPage County districts, a meaningful indicator of comparative academic standing. Test participation rates were consistently high across all grades and subjects, suggesting little missing data and reliable results.
Edison sits in CUSD 200, which recently underwent a major infrastructure shift. Voters approved a substantial bond referendum in 2024 to fund renovations and additions to Edison, Franklin, and Monroe middle schools, including safety upgrades, infrastructure repairs, accessibility improvements, and new science labs and instructional spaces. Construction was set to begin in summer 2025. The district structured the debt over a longer repayment horizon than typical, projecting meaningful interest savings and a net decrease in the bond-and-interest portion of homeowners' tax bills over time. For families with school-age children, this signals both investment in the school's physical plant and, for taxpayers, a deliberate long-term financing approach.
Wheaton itself is a college-town suburb with a revitalized downtown core, anchored by Wheaton College, and two Metra stations connecting to Chicago. The town is in active redevelopment, with multiple apartment and mixed-use projects underway downtown. Housing values in the area sit solidly above state benchmarks, and rental costs reflect typical suburban-to-urban fringe pricing. The median listing price in the broader county market has risen modestly year-over-year, and there remains a healthy inventory of homes on the market.
Data on free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility, special education enrollment, and English learner populations were not available for Edison, making it difficult to characterize student economic and language-background diversity beyond race and ethnicity counts. The school's website or a direct conversation with administration could clarify those populations and the school's approach to supporting them. Test score trends over multiple years were not available either, so whether the math-proficiency dip in eighth grade reflects ongoing patterns or a single-year variation is not clear from these data alone.
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