Enrollment
292
Elementary
DISTRICT 213 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRAIRIE-HILLS ESD 144·NCES 172472002678
Markham Park Elementary School
16239 Lawndale Ave, Markham, IL 60428 · (708) 210-2869 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL292 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of Illinois public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
23.4:1
13 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
273 students
DISTRICT 96% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 30 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 32 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 20% |
| Grade 6 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 37% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Markham Park Elementary School→Prairie-Hills Junior High School
Based on grade levels within Prairie-Hills ESD 144. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
20.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +8.3pp since 2023
Math
5.6%
IL avg 37.9% . +2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.5% | 5.6% |
| 2023-24 | 12.2% | 3.4% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
13.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 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 Markham Park Elementary School
Markham Park Elementary School's state test result (13.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Markham Park Elementary School this school | 292 | 93.5% | 13.7% |
| Ward L Elementary School Chicago | 279 | 91.8% | 9.0% |
| Nash Elementary School Chicago | 255 | 91.0% | 12.0% |
| Earle Elementary School Chicago | 286 | 98.3% | 14.6% |
| Ninos Heroes Elementary Academic Center Chicago | 315 | 88.9% | 18.7% |
| Claremont Magnet Elementary School Chicago | 335 | 96.4% | 19.9% |
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 Markham Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.7% | #1,798 of 1,925 | #691 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.6% | #2,016 of 2,077 ▼ 64 | #787 of 829 ▼ 37 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.5% | #1,912 of 2,077 ▼ 46 | #756 of 829 ▼ 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 292 | #1,586 of 2,419 | #651 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.4:1 | #2,010 of 2,035 | #806 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.3% | #1,024 of 2,042 | #377 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.5% | #197 of 2,132 | #142 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.9% | #922 of 1,461 | #466 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
292
+7 (+2%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 426
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 | 292 | 12.5 | 23.4:1 | 93% (273) |
| 2023-24 | 290 | 16.5 | 17.6:1 | 93% (271) |
| 2022-23 | 308 | 11.5 | 26.8:1 | 93% (286) |
| 2020-21 | 285 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 324 | 15.6 | 20.8:1 | 95% (309) |
| 2015-16 | 265 | 14 | 18.9:1 | 90% (238) |
| 2010-11 | 314 | 23 | 13.7:1 | 88% (276) |
| 2000-01 | 442 | 21 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 426 | 21 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Markham Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (324 to 292); teachers down 20% (15.6 to 12.5).
About Markham Park Elementary School
Federal records list Markham Park Elementary School as an elementary school in Markham, Illinois. Enrolled students number 292 students, in pre-K through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students each.
Besides Markham Park Elementary School, Prairie-Hills ESD 144 runs 8 other schools. The district enrolls 2,473 students.
Black students are the majority at Markham Park Elementary School, with 66% of enrollment. After that, the student body is 33% Hispanic. Among all residents of Cook County, the Black share is about 22%. Pick two students at random and there is a 45% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Markham Park Elementary School's 12.5 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 23.4:1. That is higher than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 93%. That is 27 points above the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
Measured against Illinois public elementary schools, Markham Park Elementary School receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Markham Park Elementary School would be expected to post about 17.5%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 13.7%.
Census Bureau estimates for Cook County show that the median household income is $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. There are 1,406 public schools in Cook County, enrolling about 697,934 students in all.
The nearest public school is Primary Learning Center, at about 0.6 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 23.4%, higher than Markham Park Elementary School's 13.7%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show 285 students in 2020-21 and 292 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
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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 Prairie-Hills ESD 144
- Prairie-Hills Junior High SchoolMiddle · 766 students
- Mae Jemison SchoolElementary · 368 students
- Highlands Elementary SchoolElementary · 311 students
- Chateaux SchoolElementary · 249 students
- Fieldcrest Elementary SchoolElementary · 217 students
- Nob Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 164 students
Other schools in Markham
- Prairie-Hills Junior High SchoolMiddle · 766 students
- Barack H Obama Learning AcademyElementary · 466 students
- Prairie-Hills STEAM AcademyElementary · 102 students
- Primary Learning CenterElementary · 4 students
Nearby schools
- Primary Learning Center0.6 mi · 4
- Nob Hill Elementary School0.7 mi · 164
- Fieldcrest Elementary School0.8 mi · 217
- Prairie-Hills STEAM Academy0.8 mi · 102
- Prairie-Hills Junior High School0.9 mi · 766
- Highlands Elementary School1.0 mi · 311
Frequently asked questions
About Markham Park Elementary SchoolHow large is Markham Park Elementary School?
Markham Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 292 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Markham Park Elementary School serve?
Markham Park Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Markham Park Elementary School have?
Markham Park Elementary School employs 13 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 23.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Markham Park Elementary School?
Student demographics at Markham Park Elementary School are roughly 0% White, 33% Hispanic, 66% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is Markham Park Elementary School in?
Markham Park Elementary School is part of Prairie-Hills ESD 144.
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