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Enrollment
513
Elementary
STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST PRAIRIE SD 73·NCES 171326001578
East Prairie Elementary School
7616 E Prairie Rd, Skokie, IL 60076 · (847) 673-1141 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL513 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% of Illinois public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
50 FTE teachers
STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
222 students
STATE 56%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 37 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 47 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 9% smaller than its 8th grade class (47).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
73.8%
IL avg 51.0% . +8.5pp since 2023
Math
54.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.8% | 54.1% |
| 2023-24 | 65.3% | 42.2% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
62.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Illinois's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like East Prairie Elementary School
East Prairie Elementary School's state test result (62.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Prairie Elementary School this school | 513 | 43.3% | 62.5% |
| Washington Elementary School Glenview | 406 | 50.5% | 47.1% |
| Booth Tarkington Elementary School Wheeling | 540 | 45.4% | 43.4% |
| Melzer School Morton Grove | 395 | 40.0% | 52.2% |
| Forest View Elementary School Mount Prospect | 339 | 48.4% | 56.9% |
| Nature Ridge Elementary School Bartlett | 458 | 30.8% | 53.4% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where East Prairie Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.5% | #261 of 1,925 | #87 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #559 of 2,077 ▼ 63 | #169 of 829 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.8% | #251 of 2,077 ▼ 78 | #97 of 829 ▼ 20 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 513 | #499 of 2,419 | #242 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #159 of 2,035 | #97 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.1% | #33 of 2,042 | #15 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.3% | #1,479 of 2,132 | #646 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.6% | #1,437 of 1,461 | #654 of 661 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
513
+15 (+3%) vs 2020
+38% since 1990-91, when it was 373
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 513 | 50 | 10.3:1 | 43% (222) |
| 2023-24 | 515 | 51 | 10.1:1 | 42% (218) |
| 2022-23 | 540 | 48 | 11.3:1 | 33% (180) |
| 2020-21 | 498 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 516 | 43 | 12.0:1 | 26% (133) |
| 2015-16 | 522 | 44 | 11.9:1 | 29% (152) |
| 2010-11 | 526 | 32 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
| 2000-01 | 464 | 40 | 11.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 373 | 34 | 11.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for East Prairie Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (516 to 513); teachers up 16% (43 to 50).
About East Prairie Elementary School
Families in Skokie, Illinois, are served by East Prairie Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school. The student body numbers 513 students, from pre-K through 8. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Illinois) has about 381 students.
East Prairie Elementary School belongs to East Prairie SD 73.
At East Prairie Elementary School, the largest share of students is Asian, at 33%. It is also 29% White, 24% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 7% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Cook County is roughly 8% Asian. Pick two students at random and there is a 74% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The count of teachers at East Prairie Elementary School is 50 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 10.3:1. That is lower than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. The school counts 222 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 43%. Public schools in Cook County average 66%.
East Prairie Elementary School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 88% of Illinois public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, East Prairie Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Illinois schools. It scores 62.5%; the prediction is 46.5%.
Cook County has about 5,182,090 residents, and the median household income is $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. In all, Cook County has 1,406 public schools and roughly 697,934 students.
Oliver McCracken Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles away. The five-mile area around East Prairie Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts East Prairie Elementary School at 3rd of 5.
East Prairie Elementary School has an NCES locale of City: Small.
East Prairie Elementary School's enrollment climbed from 498 in 2020-21 to 513 in 2024-25.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Skokie
- Niles West High SchoolHigh · 2,646 students
- Niles North High SchoolHigh · 1,999 students
- Fairview South Elementary SchoolElementary · 718 students
- Old Orchard Jr High SchoolMiddle · 711 students
- Lincoln Jr High SchoolMiddle · 628 students
- Madison Elementary SchoolElementary · 609 students
Other East Prairie Elementary schools
One other US public school is named East Prairie Elementary. East Prairie Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- EAST PRAIRIE ELEMEAST PRAIRIE, MO · 412 students
Nearby schools
- Oliver McCracken Middle School0.5 mi · 340
- Elizabeth Meyer School0.7 mi · 204
- Todd Hall Elementary School0.8 mi · 398
- Rutledge Hall Elementary School0.9 mi · 385
- Lincoln Hall Middle School1.0 mi · 413
- John Middleton Elementary School1.1 mi · 521
Frequently asked questions
About East Prairie Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at East Prairie Elementary School?
East Prairie Elementary School enrolls approximately 513 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does East Prairie Elementary School serve?
East Prairie Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at East Prairie Elementary School?
Approximately 10.3:1 students per teacher at East Prairie Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at East Prairie Elementary School?
At East Prairie Elementary School, the student body is approximately 29% White, 24% Hispanic, 7% Black, 33% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is East Prairie Elementary School public or private?
East Prairie Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by East Prairie SD 73.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.